Michael R. Barrick ("Atratus") - Victoriahttps://www.mbarrick.com/tag/victoria
en[Gothic BC] Bad Vibes Radio Set List from May 25https://www.mbarrick.com/blog/160601/gothic-bc-bad-vibes-radio-set-list-may-25
<div class="teaser-image field-item even" style="display: inline-block; margin-right: 10px; float: left;"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://www.mbarrick.com/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/13165940_10153526747472233_5496068706066253518_n.jpg?itok=59DCc6Na" /></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><a href="http://www.gothic.bc.ca/blog/atratus/2016-05/bad-vibes-radio-cfro-1005-fm-vancouver">Last week</a> I was on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/1523526654609465/">Bad Vibes</a> on CFRO. This is the set-list from that show. My bit starts with <em>The Vampire Club</em> by Voltaire, and you can <a href="http://www.coopradio.org/content/radio-bandcouver-289">listen to it here</a>. From that point on Marc Godfrey and I were picking from a list of music that I brought with me depending on how the conversation went. I came armed with almost three hours of music for a one hour interview, with everything picked for a reason. What I want to do for the next little while is run through those choices, including the ones that we didn't get to, and talk about why I picked them. </p>
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<p>So lets start with <em>The Vampire Club</em>.</p>
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<td><strong>Voltaire</strong></td>
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<td><em>The Vampire Club</em></td>
</tr><tr><td>Album (Year)</td>
<td><em>Boo Boo</em> (2000)</td>
</tr></tbody></table><p><br />This is classic Voltaire. It's a comedic song about a bunch of Pirate-LARP/SCA types showing up at club for Vampire LARPers. As I mentioned on the air this reminds me of people I know and, as I mentioned on-air, one person in particular who at times has been pretty heavily involved on both sides of the false dichotomy in the song. A game I have played when visiting other cities is to look over the locals to find the local incarnations of people I know here. Certain people gravitate to certain facets of gothiness and those traits and intrests tend to manifest themselves in similar ways. </p>
<p>Later in the show I mention what I call <a href="http://www.gothic.bc.ca/blog/atratus/2008-12-29/goth-fetish-goth-and-allied-scenes">allied scenes</a>, which are those other subcultures that have their own existence independed of the goth scene but also overlap or are "goth friendly". Vampire LARPing is not necessarily goth, but I think it's safe to say that if one were to draw a Venn diagram the area of the Vampire LARP circle outside the goth circle would be a pretty thin crescent.</p>
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<td class="top pleft"><b>Convergence</b><br />C11 - San Diego<br />4th &amp; B (San Diego)<br />2005-04-24</td>
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<p>There are a lot more SCA aficionados outside the goth circle, but the cross-over is significant enough that Convergence 11 was Pirate themed.</p>
<p><span style="font-size: 19.2px; line-height: 23.04px;">The concept of allied scenes is important in the history of goth in British Columbia and elsewhere. Once upon a time, and still in some of the some less-enlightened conservative strongholds, being a "freak" of any stripe was a recipe for getting your ass kicked. I can tell you a story about being egged while walking down the street in Nanaimo, </span><a href="http://www.gothic.bc.ca/users/Valerian" style="font-size: 19.2px; line-height: 23.04px;"><img alt="" class="smallicon" height="16" src="http://www.gothic.bc.ca/sites/default/files/styles/16x16_icon/public/userpics/picture-2.jpg?itok=8Ez28Rdk" title="Valerian" typeof="foaf:Image" width="16" />Valerian</a><span style="font-size: 19.2px; line-height: 23.04px;"> has a story about a beer can being pitched at her from a moving car—there are no shortage of examples. Places and groups where one could existist without feeling threatened were important. The long-running Vancouver club night "</span><a href="http://www.gothic.bc.ca/photogallery/event/Sanctuary" style="font-size: 19.2px; line-height: 23.04px;">Sanctuary</a><span style="font-size: 19.2px; line-height: 23.04px;">" holds no special claim to that name, it was a pretty common name for goth nights and clubs all over. Before there was Sanctuary, or anything going on that was specifically targeted at goths, safe places for goths included punk show and venues like the Smiling Buddha, gay-bars like Luv-a-Fair, Celebrities, The Odyssey and the various names 23 West Cordova went by in Vancouver, and Numbers/Rumours in Victoria. </span></p>
<p>These "safe place" relationships have had a lasting influence on goth culture and the crossovers to allied scenes. </p>
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<p><small>[ <em>Reposted from my blog on <a href="http://www.gothic.bc.ca/blog/atratus/2016-06/bad-vibes-radio-set-list-may-27">Gothic BC</a></em> <a href='http://www.mbarrick.com/tag/gothicbc'>#GothicBC</a> ]</small></p>
</div></div></div>Wed, 01 Jun 2016 18:11:26 +0000Michael R. Barrick8145 at https://www.mbarrick.comhttps://www.mbarrick.com/blog/160601/gothic-bc-bad-vibes-radio-set-list-may-25#comments"A Women's Strike", The Victoria Daily Colonist, March 8, 1916https://www.mbarrick.com/blog/160308/womens-strike-victoria-daily-colonist-march-8-1916
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>An article for the "Women's Realm" section of the Daily Colonist out of Victoria, British Columbia, published March 8, 1916 about New York City sweat-shop workers organizing:</p>
<h4>A Women's Strike</h4>
<p>Women have reason to be proud of the result of a strike which recentl took place in the city of New York. It has been conducted without disorder and was successful in gaining for those who took part in it shorter hours, better conditions of working, and higher wages. </p>
<p>The garment makers of several kinds, who left their work in response to the call of their leaders, would make a city the size of Victoria. They were of many nationalities and of different ages. Yet the great majority obeyed the order contained in the letter which directed them not make any disturbance. The result of the strike was to greatly increase the number of union workers and to cause the unorganized employers to combine with those who were bedore united. </p>
<p>That the great increase of membership of the Manufacturer's Association should have resulted in benefit to the garment workers is a truly wonderful outcome of a movement for the betterment of workers. Commenting on this The New York Outlook says:</p>
<p>"We are living in an age of orgainization. We cannot go back to the old free lance, individualistic, economic order. The New York garment workers' strike has proved the value of of the regulated organization of both capital and labor. And it has proved that the intellegent, sympathetic co-operationof capital and labor is to the advantage of both, and particularly to the advantage of the public."</p>
<p>That employers and employed should come to feel that they have common interests is valuable. That they should come to feel that love and sympathy with each other wich makes service a delight, would do away with labor troubles of every kind. </p>
<p><span style="font-size:12px;">[ source: <a href="http://archive.org/stream/dailycolonist58y75uvic#page/n7/mode/1up">http://archive.org/stream/dailycolonist58y75uvic#page/n7/mode/1up</a> ]</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 19.2px; line-height: 23.04px;">#IWD <a href='http://www.mbarrick.com/tag/internationalwomensday'>#internationalwomensday</a> </span></p>
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</div>Tue, 08 Mar 2016 16:29:05 +0000Michael R. Barrick8129 at https://www.mbarrick.comhttps://www.mbarrick.com/blog/160308/womens-strike-victoria-daily-colonist-march-8-1916#commentsThe Daily Colonist, November 1–11, 1915https://www.mbarrick.com/blog/151111/daily-colonist-november-1-11-1915
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>#dailycolonist1915 <a href='http://www.mbarrick.com/tag/wwi'>#WWI</a> - The news out of Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years ago. </p>
<p>I am, at last, caught up to exactly 100 years ago. The beginning of November 1915 has the British using gas for the first time, fighting in Bulgaria, King George V recovering from an accident at the front, the defeat of women's suffrage in the United States, new innovations in aerial warfare, and a new Japanese emperor, among other news. </p>
<ul><li><strong>Monday, November 1, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>[no paper on Mondays]</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Tuesday, November 2, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>A report dated October 15 from British Field Marshal Sir John French to War Secretary Lord Kitchener notes the first use of gas by the British against the Germans, "Although the enemy was known to have prepared for such reprisals, our gas attack met with marked success..."<br />[img:1:thumbnail][img:2:thumbnail][img:3:thumbnail][img:4:thumbnail]</li>
<li>With Bulgaria having declared was against Serbia and siding with Austria-Hungary and Germany last month, Russian troops attack the important port of Varna.<br />[img:5:thumbnail]</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Wednesday, November 3, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>King George V, injured at the front last week when he was thrown from his horse and the horse subsequently fell on him, awards a Victoria Cross to a solder while the king is still bedridden in hospital.<br />[img:6:thumbnail]</li>
<li>Map of fighting along the Serbian-Bulgarian boundary<br />[img:7:thumbnail]</li>
<li>Voters [all male, of course] in New York, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts vote against women's suffrage.<br />[img:8:thumbnail]</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Thursday, November 4, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>The Canadian Northern Railway Company puts in an order for two large ferries for carrying rail cars to operate between Victoria and Vancouver, "enabling travellers bound from any Eastern point to Victoria to make the unbroken trip through".<br />[img:9:thumbnail][img:10:thumbnail]</li>
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<li><strong>Friday, November 5, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>Germans experiment with attacking ships with aeroplanes.<br />[img:11:thumbnail]</li>
<li>A small article notes that women are serving in combat roles in the Serbia army along side men. <br />[img:12:thumbnail]</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Saturday, November 6, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>The northern lights are visible in Victoria twice overnight. The relationship between sunspot activity, magnetic storms and the northern lights is noted.<br />[img:13:thumbnail]</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Sunday, November 7, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>Rumours of Lord Kitchener's resignation as War Secretary due him not attending a meeting of the War Council on November 2 are put to rest with an official statement that he is on tour in the Eastern Theatre, possibly visiting Egypt and Gallipoli. The Globe newspaper in London is raided by police and shut down for reporting that Lord Kitchener had resigned. <br />[img:14:thumbnail][img:15:thumbnail][img:16:thumbnail]</li>
<li>Another article on the seizure of The Globe by police.<br />[img:17:thumbnail]</li>
<li>The United States navy successfully tests a device for launching aeroplanes from the deck of a moving ship. <br />[img:18:thumbnail]</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Monday, November 8, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>[no paper on Mondays]</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Tuesday, November 9, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>A large picture on the front page with no accompanying article of Edith Cavell, "Was Martyred in Britain's Cause". There have been, however, several articles about Edith Cavell, a British nurse working in Belgium, in the past three weeks as she was shot by the Germans for "treason" on October 12 for helping allied soldiers escape German occupied Belgium. [<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Cavell" rel="nofollow">More on Edith Cavell from Wikipedia</a>]<br />[img:19:thumbnail]</li>
<li>An interesting article on the history of Cyprus, currently held by the British Empire since 1878 and being offered to Greece if the country will enter the war on the side of Serbia. [Cyprus was leased to Britian by the Ottoman Empire from 1878 until being claimed outright by Britain when the Ottoman Emprie entered the war. Cyprus will remain part of the British Empire until independence in 1960. However, to this day Britiain still has sovereignty over some large chunks of the island and the politics of the island since 1960 are strange to say the least and difficult to explain in brief.]<br />[img:20:thumbnail][img:21:thumbnail][img:22:thumbnail]</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Wednesday, November 10, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>A new emperor is crowned in Japan, with the coronation being the first in Japanese history open to Japanese commoners and foreign representatives. The article describes the coronation in detail. <br />[img:23:thumbnail][img:24:thumbnail][img:25:thumbnail][img:26:thumbnail][img:27:thumbnail][img:28:thumbnail][img:29:thumbnail]</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Thursday, November 11, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>The editorial page summary of the 468th day of the war.<br />[img:30:thumbnail][img:31:thumbnail]</li>
</ul></li>
</ul><p><small>[ source: <a href="http://www.britishcolonist.ca/dateList.php?year=1915" rel="nofollow">http://www.britishcolonist.ca/dateList.php?year=1915</a> ]</small></p>
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</div>Wed, 11 Nov 2015 20:47:26 +0000Michael R. Barrick8056 at https://www.mbarrick.comhttps://www.mbarrick.com/blog/151111/daily-colonist-november-1-11-1915#commentsThe Daily Colonist, September 14–30, 1915https://www.mbarrick.com/blog/151101/daily-colonist-september-14-30-1915
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>#dailycolonist1915 <a href='http://www.mbarrick.com/tag/wwi'>#WWI</a> - The news our of Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years ago:</p>
<p>In this update: Zeppelins, conspiracy theory (1915 style), propaganda, genocide, fall fashions, exploration and discovery in the far north, a major allied offensive on the western front and more.</p>
<ul><li><strong>Tuesday, September 14, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>More Zeppelin raids on the east coast of England over the weekend. The London Globe newspaper calls for 12-fold retaliation and financial remuneration. <br />[img:1:thumbnail]</li>
<li>A German-American association meets in Philadelphia and accuses the British Empire of carrying out a conspiracy to undermine American commerce and control world trade.<br />[img:2:thumbnail]</li>
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<li><strong>Wednesday, September 15, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>The American ambassador to the Ottoman Empire call on the United States to take Armenian refugees. The article goes on to say that the Ottoman Empire is committed to annihilating all non-Muslims and insinuates that Ottoman attacks on Christians is the fault of Germany.<br />[img:3:thumbnail][img:4:thumbnail]</li>
<li>An ad for new fall hats in the latest styles of New York and Paris.<br />[img:5:thumbnail]</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Thursday, September 16, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>The Governor General, H.R.H. The Duke of Connaught visits British Columbia to do troop inspections, starting in Vernon. <br />[img:6:thumbnail][img:7:thumbnail][img:8:thumbnail][img:9:thumbnail][img:10:thumbnail][img:11:thumbnail][img:12:thumbnail]</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Friday, September 17, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>The editorial page summary for the 413th day of the war.<br />[img:13:thumbnail]</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Saturday, September 18, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>A large front page picture from the Victoria leg of the Governor General's inspection tour.<br />[img:14:thumbnail]</li>
<li>A map showing the current state of the Gallipoli offensive.<br />[img:15:thumbnail]</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Sunday, September 19, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>Canadian explorer Vilhjalmar Stefansson discovers new land in the far north [either what are now named Brock Island or MacKenzie King Island.] It's not known if the new land is an island or the souther fringe of an Arctic continent [which is a reminder that in 1915 there were still blank spaces on the map.]<br />[img:16:thumbnail]</li>
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<li><strong>Monday, September 20, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>[no paper on Mondays]</li>
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<li><strong>Tuesday, September 21, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>An article describing the fighting in Gallipoli, "the dead lay so thick that a temporary armistice became imperative."<br />[img:17:thumbnail]</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Wednesday, September 22, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>An ad for a "Scientific and Practical Demonstration" of corsets.<br />[img:18:thumbnail]</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Thursday, September 23, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>A bizarrely drawn ad for Bovril.<br />[img:19:thumbnail]</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Friday, September 24, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>Speculation over which side Bulgaria will take in the war, including the difficult position of the Czar of Bulgaria and his familial relationship to the royal families on both sides of the war.<br />[img:20:thumbnail][img:21:thumbnail]</li>
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<li><strong>Saturday, September 25, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>A really weird ad for Kellog's Corn Flakes suggesting filling a cantaloupe with dry Corn Flakes for breakfast.<br />[img:22:thumbnail]</li>
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<li><strong>Sunday, September 26, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>Allied troops start a massive offensive along a long stretch of the western front. The front page features a large photo of the commanders of the French and British armies. <br />[img:23:thumbnail]</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Monday, September 27, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>A special extra addition with the huge headline "ALLIES TAKE 20,000 GERMAN PRISONERS" and several articles on the fighting over the weekend. <br />[img:24:thumbnail][img:25:thumbnail]</li>
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<li><strong>Tuesday, September 28, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>More details on the fighting over the weekend.<br />[img:26:thumbnail][img:27:thumbnail]</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Wednesday, September 29, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>A Glasgow bagpipe manufacturer credits the war with a huge surge in the popularity of the instrument. <br />[img:29:thumbnail][img:30:thumbnail][img:31:thumbnail]</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Thursday, September 30, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>New Orleans is hit with the worst hurricane in its history. Broken levees and storm surge have flooded many suburbs, there is no train service because of washed-out tracks, electricity is out to the entire city, and telephone and telegraph communications with the city have been completely lost [rememebr all this is 90 years before Katrina, lessons learned: apparently none.]<br />[img:32:thumbnail]</li>
</ul></li>
</ul><p><small>[ source: <a href="http://www.britishcolonist.ca/dateList.php?year=1915" rel="nofollow">http://www.britishcolonist.ca/dateList.php?year=1915</a> ]</small></p>
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</div>Mon, 02 Nov 2015 01:11:48 +0000Michael R. Barrick8049 at https://www.mbarrick.comhttps://www.mbarrick.com/blog/151101/daily-colonist-september-14-30-1915#commentsThe Daily Colonist, August 12–September 13, 1915https://www.mbarrick.com/blog/151014/daily-colonist-august-12-september-13-1915
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>#dailycolonist1915 <a href='http://www.mbarrick.com/tag/wwi'>#WWI</a> - The news out of Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years ago:</p>
<p>[In an effort to catch up to being exactly one hundred years ago, this update covers just over a month. There is a lot in this update even though I restricted myself to just one article per day.]</p>
<ul><li><strong>Thursday, August 12, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>[We'll start with something you never see anymore:] An ad for a weight-gain treatment called "Sargol"<br />[img:1:thumbnail][img:2:thumbnail]</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Friday, August 13, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>Marine Drive in West Van is paved for four miles and officially opened by Premier McBride with civic officials from the municipalities of West Vancouver, North Vancouver, South Vancouver and Point Grey in attendance.<br />[img:3:thumbnail]</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Saturday, August 14, 1915</strong></li>
<li>
<ul><li>A Zeppelin raid of eastern England, the second this week, kills 6, injures 23.<br />[img:4:thumbnail]</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Sunday, August 15, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>A fantastic illustration of a British aeroplane fighting a German double-hulled biplane.<br />[img:5:thumbnail]</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Monday, August 16, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>[no paper on Mondays]</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Tuesday, August 17, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>Vancouver businessmen meet to oppose prohibition legislation being passed without first having a provinvial public plebicite.<br />[img:6:thumbnail]</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Wednesday, August 18, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>A British troop ship is sunk my a German submarine in the Aegean Sea, over 1,000 men are killed.<br />[img:7:thumbnail][img:8:thumbnail][img:9:thumbnail][img:10:thumbnail]</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Thursday, August 19, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>"[All] Quiet on the Western Front"<br />[img:11:thumbnail]</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Friday, August 20, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>German submarines sink another passenger liner, the White Star Line's SS Arabic.<br />[img:12:thumbnail][img:13:thumbnail][img:14:thumbnail][img:15:thumbnail][img:16:thumbnail]</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Saturday, August 21, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>Switzerland vows to remain neutral amid rumours of it siding with Germany and Austria. <br />[img:17:thumbnail]</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Sunday, August 22, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>Italy [at this point only officially at war with Austria-Hungary] declares war with the Ottoman Empire. <br />[img:18:thumbnail][img:19:thumbnail]</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Monday, August 23, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>[no paper on Mondays]</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Tuesday, August 24, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>The provincial government [presumably under pressure from businessmen as noted in the article from the 17th] announces that it will not enact alcohol prohibition without a public referendum.<br />[img:20:thumbnail][img:21:thumbnail]</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Wednesday, August 25, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>Four months into the Gallipoli campaign, there is optimism that Allied troops will soon have control of Dardanelles and the Bosphorus, opening a much-needed supply line to Russia. Meanwhile Russian troops are falling back on the Eastern Front. <br />[img:22:thumbnail][img:23:thumbnail][img:24:thumbnail]</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Thursday, August 26, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>Following the Italian declaration of war against them, the Ottoman Empire threatens to make peace with the Allies unless Germany officially declares war with Italy [underlining the complexity of the diplomacy of the time.]<br />[img:25:thumbnail]</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Friday, August 27, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>The Ottoman Empire continues the systematic genocide of Armenian Christians, nearly 14,000 are killed in mass executions in Trebizond.<br />[img:26:thumbnail]</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Saturday, August 28, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>A front-page feature on the fighting in Gallipoli. Irish, Australian and New Zealand troops in heavy fighting against the Turks. "The dead lie thick everywhere, and the stench is appalling."<br />[img:27:thumbnail][img:28:thumbnail][img:29:thumbnail]</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Sunday, August 29, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>Canada is expected to be called upon to send another 50,000 men overseas. <br />[img:30:thumbnail][img:31:thumbnail][img:32:thumbnail][img:33:thumbnail]</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Monday, August 30, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>[no paper on Mondays]</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Tuesday, August 31, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>The Attorney-General of British Columbia orders that Doukhbors near Grand Forks must send their children to the provincial school and adhere to other laws or face prosecution, stating, "it is intolerable that any number of people should be permitted to band themselves together, and just because they choose to say they are living under rules and regulations of their own devising, set the laws of the country at defiance."<br />[img:34:thumbnail][img:35:thumbnail][img:36:thumbnail]</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Wednesday, September 1, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>The first class of the University of British Columbia meets. <a href='http://www.mbarrick.com/tag/ubc100'><a href='http://www.mbarrick.com/tag/ubc'>#UBC</a>100</a> <a href='http://www.mbarrick.com/tag/ubc'>#UBC</a><br />[img:37:thumbnail]</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Thursday, September 2, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>Germany acknowledges American demands and vows that they will no longer sink passenger liners without warning, stipulating that once warning is given, the ship may not resist or try to escape. This concession is considered a diplomatic victory for the United States, but it may not be sufficient.<br />[img:38:thumbnail][img:39:thumbnail][img:40:thumbnail][img:41:thumbnail][img:42:thumbnail]</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Friday, September 3, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>The Armenian Genocide continues. Ottoman Turks wipe out town of Ismid, population 25,000. <br />[img:43:thumbnail]</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Saturday, September 4, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>Victoria continues to struggle with regulating jitneys [what we would now call "ride-sharing".] Insurance, over-crowed vehicles, passenger safety and driver safety are all at issue [all the same things, that despite being resolved 100 years ago are all problems again thanks to Silicon Valley assholes. <a href='http://www.mbarrick.com/tag/uber'>#UBER</a> ]<br />[img:44:thumbnail][img:45:thumbnails][img:46:thumbnails] </li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Sunday, September 5, 1915 </strong>
<ul><li>With winter approaching, Russian troops are doing what Russian troops do in the winter: retreating a burning everything as they go, leaving the enemy to fight starvation and cold. <br />[img:47:thumbnail][img:48:thumbnail]</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Monday, September 6, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>[no paper on Mondays]</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Tuesday, September 7, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>Despite the dipmatic assurances of last Thursday, Germans torpedo an American passenger liner without warning. <br />[img:49:thumbnail][img:50:thumbnail][img:51:thumbnail]</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Wednesday, September 8, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>Czar Nicholas II takes direct command of Imperial Russian forces. <br />[img:52:thumbnail][img:53:thumbnail]</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Thursday, September 9, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>Two men are arrested in Toronto for openly toasting to the Kaiser in several bars over the course of a week. They are being held a vagrants until they can be turned over to the registrar of enemy aliens. <br />[img:54:thumbnail]</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Friday, September 10, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>A Zepplin attack reaches London, 20 killed, 73 injured. Total casualties from Zepplin attacks now at 122 dead, 349 injured.<br />[img:55:thumbnail][img:56:thumbnail][img:57:thumbnail]</li>
<li>Another article on the same Zeppelin attack, "...the spectacle of a Zeppelin high up in the heavens with lights flashing upon it and shells bursting all round was regarded, even enjoyed, as a unique and thrilling sight."<br />[img:58:thumbnail]</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Saturday, September 11, 1915</strong>
<ul><li> An article on the Czar taking control of the Imperal Russian armed forces notes "New Russia Will Result from Policy" [without an incling of exactly how much change is coming to Russia in the near future.]<br />[img:59:thumbnail][img:60:thumbnail][img:61:thumbnail]</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Sunday, September 12, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>News that a new statue commemorating Queen Victoria that will be placed in front the the Parliament Buildings in Victoria is now ready for delivery. <br />[img:62:thumbnail][img:63:thumbnail]</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Monday, September 13, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>[no paper on Mondays]</li>
</ul></li>
</ul><p><small>[source: <a href="http://www.britishcolonist.ca/dateList.php?year=1915" rel="nofollow">http://www.britishcolonist.ca/dateList.php?year=1915</a> ]</small></p>
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</div>Wed, 14 Oct 2015 19:13:50 +0000Michael R. Barrick8046 at https://www.mbarrick.comhttps://www.mbarrick.com/blog/151014/daily-colonist-august-12-september-13-1915#commentsThe Daily Colonist, August 3–11, 1915https://www.mbarrick.com/blog/150913/daily-colonist-august-3-11-1915
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>#dailycolonist1915 <a href='http://www.mbarrick.com/tag/wwi'>#WWI</a> - The news out of Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years ago. </p>
<p>German savagery and terrorism, the anniversary of the British Empire declaring war, fall of Warsaw, American occupation of Haiti, and the creation of the Revelstoke internment camp. [I planned to cover more days in this installment, but the Internet Archive is down for maintenance today.]</p>
<ul><li><strong>Tuesday, August 3, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>"German Savages" use "Fire Projector" [flame-throwers] against British troops near Hooge. "The fire projector is carried strapped to the back exactly as a fire extinguisher and apparently contains some inflammable oil under strong pressure…"<br />[img:1:thumbnail][img:2:thumbnail]</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Wednesday, August 4, 1915</strong><br />(The anniversary of the British Empire declaring war on the German Empire)
<ul><li>Large photo of King George V on the front page.<br />[img:3:thumbnail]</li>
<li>Summary of the war on the editorial page where today is counted as the 369th day of the war counting from the German declaration of war against Russia. <br />[img:4:thumbnail]</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Thursday, August 5, 1915</strong><br />(Stories of gatherings marking the anniversary of the war appear today)
<ul><li>A large gathering at the Opera House in London, England. Sir Richard Borden, Prime Minister of Canada, is a featured speaker.<br />[img:5:thumbnail][img:6:thumbnail][img:7:thumbnail][img:8:thumbnail][img:9:thumbnail]</li>
<li>Victorians rally in Beacon Hill Park to show support for the Empire.<br />[img:10:thumbnail][img:11:thumbnail][img:12:thumbnail][img:13:thumbnail]</li>
<li>The King and Queen attend ceremonies at St. Paul's Cathedral, London. <br />[img:14:thumbnail][img:15:thumbnail]</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Friday, August 6, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>German troops enter Warsaw, which has already been evacuated. <br />[img:16:thumbnail][img:17:thumbnail][img:18:thumbnail]</li>
<li>American marines take the fort overlooking Port au Prince, Hayti [Haiti] without resistance. [Americans invaded Haiti on July 28, 1915 and would occupy the country until 1934.]<br />[img:19:thumbnail]</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Saturday, August 7, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>An attempt to sabotage White Star liner "Arabic" leaving from New York for Liverpool is foiled.<br />[img:20:thumbnail]</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Sunday, August 8, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>Font page article that an internment camp will be established in the National Park on Mount Revelstoke and prisoners will be used to complete a road to the summit. <br />[img:21:thumbnail]</li>
<li>Another article, this one on the last page, also covers the creation of a detention camp at Mt. Revelstoke.<br />[img:22:thumbnail]</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Monday, August 9, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>[no paper on Mondays]</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Tuesday, August 10, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>Front page article noting the current size of the Canadian forces involved in the war: Over 80,000 deployed overseas, with 13,000 of those on the casualty lists, and another 60-65 thousand still in Canada.<br />[img:23:thumbnail]</li>
<li>Rules for enlistment have changed: wives can no longer object, parents of men 18-21 can no longer have to provide consent, and men who change their mind can no long purchase their own discharge. <br />[img:24:thumbnail][img:25:thumbnail]</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Wednesday, August 11, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>Germans using "terrorist tactics" in Warsaw by taking prominent citizens hostage to guarantee compliance of citizens with German rule. <br />[img:26:thumbnail]</li>
</ul></li>
</ul><p><small>[ source: <a href="http://www.britishcolonist.ca/dateList.php?year=1915" rel="nofollow">http://www.britishcolonist.ca/dateList.php?year=1915</a> ]</small></p>
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</div>Sun, 13 Sep 2015 18:58:59 +0000Michael R. Barrick8039 at https://www.mbarrick.comhttps://www.mbarrick.com/blog/150913/daily-colonist-august-3-11-1915#commentsThe Daily Colonist, July 29–August 2, 1915https://www.mbarrick.com/blog/150905/daily-colonist-july-29-august-2-1915
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>#dailycolonist1915 - The news out of Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years ago.</p>
<p>Honours for the Canadian Prime Minister, genocide in Syria, new and horrible war technologies, a famous electric chair execution, legal haggling over Kits Point, progress on the world's largest telescope, news of a good whaling season, Victoria man's body killed in the sinking of the Lusitania recovered in Ireland, and amazing entertainment at the Pantages.
</p><ul><li><strong>Thursday, July 29, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>Freedom on the City of London is granted to Sir Robert Borden, Prime Minister of Canada. [And if you recognise the portrait on the front page, it is because Robert Borden has been the face on $100 bills since 1972.]<br />[img:1:thumbnail][img:2:thumbnail]</li>
<li>Ottoman Turks are killing or deporting Armenians and Christians in Syria, "...such crimes lately had increased, both in the number and the degree of atrocity." [Remember this news is from a century ago and consider current events in Syria.]<br />[img:3:thumbnail]</li>
<li>Editorial on the presentation of freedom of the City of London to Robert Borden with a brief backgrounder on the history and significance of the honour. <br />[img:4:thumbnail]</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Friday, July 31, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>In-depth article on Robert Borden being conferred Freedom of the City, including the text of the speech made by Sir Borden, including his conjecture on how "the historian of the future" will look back on the war.<br />[img:5:thumbnail][img:6:thumbnail][img:7:thumbnail][img:8:thumbnail][img:9:thumbnail][img:10:thumbnail][img:11:thumbnail][img:12:thumbnail]</li>
<li>An editorial on the "364th day of the war" that concludes with "Altogether the war news of yesterday was singularly barren of interest."<br />[img:13:thumbnail]</li>
<li>Speculation in a back-page article that despite the lack of news from the front and no confirmation from Ottawa, the number of Canadians on the casualty lists indicates that Canadian troops are involved in something, and "that behind the present secrecy there is a big movement of some kind on foot, and that important developments may be expected shortly."<br />[img:14:thumbnail]</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Saturday, July 31, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>Germans penetrate the front lines and take 500 yards of trench with the use of "flame projectiles." The article continues with a summary of other activity on the front. <br />[img:15:thumbnail][img:16:thumbnail][img:17:thumbnail]</li>
<li>An article on the latest developments in aerial warfare, including a massive 4-prop, 8-engined German biplane.<br />[img:18:thumbnail][img:19:thumbnail]</li>
<li>A small back-page article on the execution by electric chair of Charles Becker in Sing Sing prison, New York. "Three shocks were given before the prison physicians pronounced Becker dead..." [Becker's death took a total on nine minutes in which he was in intense pain, and was very like innocent of the murder he was executed for. The entire case was quite famous and several books have been written about it. See <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Becker" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Becker</a> for more information.]<br />[img:20:thumbnail]</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Sunday, August 1, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>An image of the Canadian-built model CJ.3 biplane, "which is being purchased by the British War Office in large numbers."<br />[img:21:thumbnail]</li>
<li>Lengthy article on the transfer of the Kitsilano Indian Reserve "in the heart of Vancouver, which for years has not only been a great civic eyesore, but a bar to the city's progress" from federal control under the Indian Act, to the province, who in turn will give the Vancouver Harbour Board control. [This area is now Vanier Park and is still being contested.]<br />[img:22:thumbnail][img:23:thumbnail][img:24:thumbnail]</li>
<li>Excavations and construction of the foundations for the 50-ton telescope of the Dominion Observatory on Little Saanich Mountain are progressing nicely.<br />[img:25:thumbnail][img:26:thumbnail]</li>
<li>The Victoria Whaling Company reports "good catches" and expects a profitable season despite a late start, "some seventy-five whales had been harpooned within the first four weeks of the present season."<br />[img:28:thumbnail][img:29:thumbnail]</li>
<li>Another body from the May 7 sinking of the Lusitania has been recovered in Ireland and identified as Mr. G. R. Blackburn of Victoria. Identification after three months in the water was only possible by matching the invoice numbers on two postal notes made otherwise illegible by the "long contact with salt water."<br />[img:30:thumbnail]</li>
<li>The Pantages Theatre will be presenting a mechanical reproduction "(not a moving picture)" of the sinking of the Lusitania. Also on the bill is "Parisian Beauty" and singer Julietta Dika, pictured in wasp-waisted mermaid dress [I've found and included a better reproduction of the photograph used in the ad.]<br />[img:31:thumbnail][img:32:thumbnail]</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Monday, August 2, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>[no paper on Mondays]</li>
</ul></li>
</ul><p><small>[ source: <a href="http://www.britishcolonist.ca/dateList.php?year=1915" rel="nofollow">http://www.britishcolonist.ca/dateList.php?year=1915</a> ]</small></p>
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</div>Sat, 05 Sep 2015 18:53:49 +0000Michael R. Barrick8033 at https://www.mbarrick.comhttps://www.mbarrick.com/blog/150905/daily-colonist-july-29-august-2-1915#commentsThe Daily Colonist, July 15–28, 1915https://www.mbarrick.com/blog/150827/daily-colonist-july-15-28-1915
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>#dailycolonist1915 - The news out of Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years ago. </p>
<p>[A big update as I try to catch up, ending on the anniversary of the event the started the war.]</p>
<ul><li><strong>Thursday, July 15, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>The war in the air: French aviators make a reconnaissance flight believed to be part of a plan to attack the main German gun factory; German facilities in Ghent are bombed; the public release of British dockyard expenditures reveals that Britain had a fleet of 16 airships in 1914.<br />[img:1:thumbnail][img:2:thumbnail]</li>
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<li><strong>Friday, July 16, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>It is rumored via a friend of King Albert of Belgium that the French government is considering the use of "turpenite" in retaliation for German chlorine attacks. (Turpenite is a neurotoxin first reported in the Colonist on <a href="http://www.mbarrick.com/blog/140927/daily-colonist-september-27-1914" rel="nofollow">September 27, 1914</a> that kills so suddenly that those exposed "maintained a standing posture and retained their rifles in their hands.")<br />[img:3:thumbnail]</li>
<li>The Governor General gives the Minister of Justice is given the power to detain and imprison alien enemies "at will". As a result the habeas corpus application by two Austrian miners detained in Fernie is nullified. Now Germans, Austrians and subjects of other enemy countries can be detained for no other reason than their citizenship, with no legal recourse against the detention. <br />[img:4:thumbnail][img:5:thumbnail]</li>
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<li><strong>Saturday, July 17, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>Two articles on back-handed and unscrupulous tactics to force men into army without enacting conscription. The first is a small front page article on how the city of Hamilton is firing single men employed in their works department "as a hint that the Empire needs them." The second is a lengthier article on the Montreal Stock Exchange encouraging its members to use the same tactic. The Montreal Trades and Labour Council calls for protests. <br />[img:6:thumbnail][img:7:thumbnail]</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Sunday, July 18, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>Canadian casualty list tops ten-thousands men. Article includes statistics broken down by regiment.<br />[img:8:thumbnail][img:9:thumbnail][img:10:thumbnail][img:11:thumbnail]</li>
<li>Two-page photo-spread on dead soldiers from Victoria.<br />[img:12:thumbnail]</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Monday, July 19, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>[no paper on Mondays]</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Tuesday, July 20, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>Tiny little bottom-of-the-column filler article on an attempted assassination by bomb of the Governor General of Canton [Guangdong].<br />[img:13:thumbnail]</li>
<li>Lawyers for a man hit by a car-for-hire argue that in the abscence of regulations, the city is liable for damages [another case of the problems faced 100 years ago with unregulated "ride sharing" that companies like Uber are reintroducing.]<br />[img:14:thumbnail][img:15:thumbnail][img:16:thumbnail]</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Wednesday, July 21, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>Terrorist bombing of ships leaving New York for Europe have prompted the implementation of extraordinary measures to inspect cargoes, including using an X-ray machine to search for concealed bombs. <br />[img:17:thumbnail]</li>
<li>Bodies from the sinking of the Lusitania on May 7 are still washing ashone in Ireland. <br />[img:18:thumbnail]</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Thursday, July 22, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>Alberta passes province-wide prohibition to go in effect July 1, 1916. The only city where voting was not in favour of prohibition was Lethbridge. <br />[img:19:thumbnail]</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Friday, July 23, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>In their ongoing war-of-words with Germany, the United States issues a note saying that further loss of life through the sinking of American ships will be considered an "unfriendly act."<br />[img:20:thumbnail][img:21:thumbnail][img:22:thumbnail]</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Saturday, July 24, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>The complete text of the American diplomatic note to Germany is printed on the front page. <br />[img:23:thumbnail][img:24:thumbnail][img:25:thumbnail][img:26:thumbnail][img:27:thumbnail][img:28:thumbnail][img:29:thumbnail]</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Sunday, July 25, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>An excursion steamer carrying 2,500 people, mostly employees of the Western Electric Company on a company outing, overturns while leaving the wharf, killing almost one thousand people. The article is lengthy, detailed and rather gruesome. [In an article on Tuesday that I have not reproduced, it is concluded that the ship was overloaded and not carrying enough ballast in order to clear the bottom of the river with the extra weight.]<br />[img:30:thumbnail][img:31:thumbnail][img:32:thumbnail][img:33:thumbnail][img:34:thumbnail][img:35:thumbnail][img:36:thumbnail][img:37:thumbnail][img:38:thumbnail][img:39:thumbnail][img:40:thumbnail][img:41:thumbnail][img:42:thumbnail]</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Monday, July 26, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>[no paper on Mondays]</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Tuesday, July 27, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>German spies are operating out of Vermont and New Hampshire. "...evidence that these sections bordering upon Canada are infested with German spies."<br />[img:43:thumbnail]</li>
<li>A romantic ad for Chiclets.<br />[img:44:thumbnail]</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Wednesday, July 28, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>Images on the front page marking the anniversary of the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand and his wife in Sarajevo. <br />[img:45:thumbnail]<br />(Also, British forces in Mesopotamia [Iraq] take the town of Nasiriyah.)</li>
<li>Germans are reported to have invisible aeroplanes, made by using a sort of cellophane instead of canvas.<br />[img:46:thumbnal]</li>
</ul></li>
</ul><p><small>[ source: <a href="http://www.britishcolonist.ca/dateList.php?year=1915" rel="nofollow">http://www.britishcolonist.ca/dateList.php?year=1915</a> ]</small></p>
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</div>Thu, 27 Aug 2015 21:31:45 +0000Michael R. Barrick8029 at https://www.mbarrick.comhttps://www.mbarrick.com/blog/150827/daily-colonist-july-15-28-1915#commentsThe Daily Colonist, July 13–14, 1915https://www.mbarrick.com/blog/150808/daily-colonist-july-13-14-1915
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>#dailycolonist1915 - The news out of Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years ago:</p>
<p>[In a mere two days we have genocide, secret agents, conspiracy, awards from the king, real technology that reads like steampunk fiction and a new university. ]</p>
<ul><li><strong>Tuesday, July 13, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>Christians, mostly Armenians, are being displaced and slaughtered in the Ottoman Empire [this will later be known as the Armenian Genocide and continues in the post-war republic of Turkey.]<br />[img:1:thumbnail][img:2:thumbnail]</li>
<li>A ceremony is held at Buckingham Palace, attended by the entire Court, with King George V presenting military awards.<br />[img:3:thumbnail]</li>
<li>Five Canadian officers are honoured with titles bestowed by the king.<br />[img:4:thumbnail]</li>
<li>An interesting little article on how seized German tankers are ingeniously outfitted as unsinkable ferries to carry troops across the English Channel.<br />[img:5:thumbnail]</li>
<li>The University of British Columbia is to open this fall despite the decision to scale-back construction due to the war. While the site has been cleared and some construction at the Point Grey campus has started, modest and temporary facilities along with the transfer of resources from the Vancouver and Victoria facilities of McGill University College will get the university started. <br />[img:6:thumbnail][img:7:thumbnail][img:8:thumbnail][img:9:thumbnail]</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Wednesday, July 14, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>The Germans have deployed a deadly electric fence to prevent Belgian refugees from crossing into Holland. <br />[img:10:thumbnail]</li>
<li>Germans are reported to have developed an aerial torpedo guided by Hertzian waves [from the description in the article, more or less an radio-controlled explosive mini-Zeppelin] in order to overcome the difficulties in accurate bombing from Zeppelins. "The new aerial weapon obtains its buoyancy through the medium of water gas and compressed air gas" ["water gas" is a mix of hydrogen and carbon monoxide created by injecting steam into a coke furnace] And, apparently, the currently employed makeshift measure for accurately dropping bombs this supersedes is lowering a guy on a really long rope!<br />[img:11:thumbnail][img:12:thumbnail]</li>
<li>Going back to the unexploded bombs found on ships out of New York reported on the 8th, the United States is investigating: "Secret agents are co-operating with the police of practically every Eastern and Southern city in an effort to run down what is believed to be a conspiracy, titanic in its scope, to destroy freight steamers clearing from American ports for England and France."<br />[img:13:thumbnail]</li>
</ul></li>
</ul><p><small> [ source: <a href="http://www.britishcolonist.ca/dateList.php?year=1915" rel="nofollow">http://www.britishcolonist.ca/dateList.php?year=1915</a> ]</small></p>
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</div>Sat, 08 Aug 2015 16:15:51 +0000Michael R. Barrick8003 at https://www.mbarrick.comhttps://www.mbarrick.com/blog/150808/daily-colonist-july-13-14-1915#commentsThe Daily Colonist, July 8–12, 1915https://www.mbarrick.com/blog/150806/daily-colonist-july-8-12-1915
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>#dailycolonist1915 - The news out of Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years ago:</p>
<p>There are several interesting things this week including, terrorists in New York, a renewed German offensive, the fall of German Southwest Africa, the reply to the American note on the sinking of the Lusitania and the expansion of Canadian forces as the casualty list rises. </p>
<ul><li><strong>Thursday, July 8, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>Three steamships, two of which were British, dispatched from New York were found to have arrived in Britain with unexploded bombs aboard. The bombs were put on board while the ships were in New York.<br />[img:1:thumbnail]</li>
<li>Several reports [I've only reproduced one] of the Germans transporting wounded out of Belgium and bringing in large numbers of fresh troops, mostly new recruits, in a build up for a renewed attempt to take Calais. There are conflicting reports that the Germans are even moving troops from the Russian front for the offensive.<br />[img:2:thumbnail]</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Friday, July 9, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>On the advice of the Prime Minister, the Governor General has ordered that Canada's expeditionary force is to be increased to 150,000 men and maintained at that level.<br />[img:3:thumbnail]</li>
<li>Total Canadian casualties approach ten thousand, with 1,639 killed and 6,458 wounded.<br />[img:4:thumbnail]</li>
<li>The sad tale of the demise of Mr. John Smart, found floating in the Gorge in Victoria.<br />[img:5:thumbnail]</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Saturday, July 10, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>The war of words between the United States and Germany over the sinking of the Lusitania continues. The Germans issue an unapologetic reply blaming the situation on Britain, citing British action in the North Sea as precedent, and blaming the death toll on the Lusitania on it sinking unusually quickly due the damage from the torpedo strike being exacerbated by munitions being carried by the ship. <br />[img:6:thumbnail][img:7:thumbnail][img:8:thumbnail][img:9:thumbnail][img:10:thumbnail][img:11:thumbnail][img:12:thumbnail]</li>
<li>German Southwest Africa [Namibia] surrenders to General Botha of the Union of South Africa.<br />[img:13:thumbnail][img:14:thumbnail]</li>
<li>The French Relief Society tallies the total casualties of the war up to June 1st as 2,282,300 killed, 4,837,510 wounded and 1,705,000 taken prisoner or missing.<br />[img:15:thumbnail]</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Sunday, July 11, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>The American counter-response the latest German note that waits on President Wilson. It is speculated that if the Germans continue to refuse to pay reparations that the United States may be forced to sever diplomatic relations with Germany.<br />[img:16:thumbnail][img:17:thumbnail]</li>
<li>Map of German Southwest Africa with the caption "Now Added to British Empire---German South-West Africa"<br />[img:18:thumbnail]</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Monday, July 12, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>[no paper on Mondays]</li>
</ul></li>
</ul><p><small>[ source: <a href="http://www.britishcolonist.ca/dateList.php?year=1915" rel="nofollow">http://www.britishcolonist.ca/dateList.php?year=1915</a> ]</small></p>
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</div>Thu, 06 Aug 2015 17:43:02 +0000Michael R. Barrick8000 at https://www.mbarrick.comhttps://www.mbarrick.com/blog/150806/daily-colonist-july-8-12-1915#commentsThe Daily Colonist, July 7, 1915https://www.mbarrick.com/blog/150804/daily-colonist-july-7-1915
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>#dailycolonist1915 - The news out of Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years ago:</p>
<ul><li><strong>Wednesday, July 7, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>The news of the human cost of the Gallipoli Penninsula landings is finally revealed, "In several instances half of the landing parties were killed or wounded before they could even reach the slight shelter afforded by the sandy bank"; "The Turks had turned the landing places into death traps. There were wire entanglements the whole length of the shore, with a supplementary barbed wire network concealed beneath the surface of the sea..."; "77 officers killed, 1,990 men killed; 412 offices and 7,807 men wounded; 17 officers and 2,580 men missing." <br />[img:1:thumbnail][img:2:thumbnail][img:3:thumbnail][img:4:thumbnail]</li>
<li>The gruesome death of Mr. Wilfred F. Miller, Proprietor of the Goldstream Hotel, in a car crash on the Malahat Drive. "Mr. Miller's head was so badly crushed that death must have been virtually instantaneous." Two other passengers and the driver survived with relatively minor injuries. The car was travelling at 15 mph when it skidded off the road and overturned two or three times. <br />[img:5:thumbnail][img:6:thumbnail][img:7:thumbnail][img:8:thumbnail]</li>
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</div>Wed, 05 Aug 2015 05:31:40 +0000Michael R. Barrick7999 at https://www.mbarrick.comhttps://www.mbarrick.com/blog/150804/daily-colonist-july-7-1915#commentsThe Daily Colonist, July 6, 1915https://www.mbarrick.com/blog/150728/daily-colonist-july-6-1915
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>#dailycolonst1915 - The news out of Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years ago:</p>
<p>[I have fallen behind in my "news" from the last century, so I am going to change the way I've been doing this. Instead of week-at-a-time updates, I am going to do as much as I can when I can until I have caught up to the current date. That might mean just one small update like this one, several small ones in one day, or several days in one update if I have a good chunk of time to work with.]</p>
<ul><li><strong>Tuesday, July 6, 1915 </strong>
<ul><li>Not much is going on at any of the the fronts. The casualty list is the shortest it has been in months at "only" 23 men. Local news is similarly uninteresting. The real fun is on the editorial page where we have some pretty snarky jabs at wartime censorship and wartime rumours.</li>
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</div>Wed, 29 Jul 2015 05:14:54 +0000Michael R. Barrick7998 at https://www.mbarrick.comhttps://www.mbarrick.com/blog/150728/daily-colonist-july-6-1915#commentsThe Daily Colonist, June 29–July 5, 1915https://www.mbarrick.com/blog/150706/daily-colonist-june-29-july-5-1915
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>#dailycolonist1915 - The news out of Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years ago.</p>
<p>[No significant changes on any front this week. The news from the front is repetitive and it seems the editors are aware that. no matter how important the war may be, vague tales of a few yards gained here, a few yards lost there, aren't holding the public interest and so there are more stories of local interest. It is mostly stories of the Ukrainian internment (as it is now known) and the terrorist bombings in Windsor that caught my attention this week. The stories on the Ukrainian internment are especially relevant now because the new "<a href="http://news.gc.ca/web/article-en.do?nid=832299" rel="nofollow">Strengthening Canadian Citizenship Act" (previously Bill C-24)</a> that allows for the stripping of Canadian citizenship from people who hold or are eligible to hold a second citizenship makes what went on in the internments of WWI entirely possible again.]</p>
<ul><li><strong>Tuesday, June 29, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>Miners from Fernie and Michel [Michel does not exist anymore. The mines were played out and the town was completely abandoned over 40 years ago] that were rounded up for being born in enemy countries, regardless of their current citizenship, is reported as having "had borne fruit". Two of the detainees have filed a writ of <em>habeas corpus</em> to fight their arrest and imprisonment. [<strong>Note well that this the new "<a href="http://news.gc.ca/web/article-en.do?nid=832299" rel="nofollow">Strengthening Canadian Citizenship Act" (previously Bill C-24)</a> that allows for the stripping of Canadian citizenship from people who hold or are eligible to hold a second citizenship makes what went on in the internments of WWI and WWII entirely possible again.</strong>]<br />[img:1:thumbnail]</li>
<li>More details on the writ of <em>habeas corpus</em> filed by two of the detainees from Fernie and why their arrest and internment is illegal.<br />[img:2:thumbnail][img:3:thumbnail]</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Wednesday, June 30, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>Fears that an areoplane flying over the Windsor jail might be attempting to rescue the German terrorists from Detroit that blew up a factory in Windsor and attempted to blow up the Windsor Armouries causes the local militia unit to be mobilized. The article aslo contains details of other planned acts of sabotage and terroism planned by the Germans from Detroit.<br />[img:4:thumbnail][img:5:thumbnail][img:6:thumbnail]</li>
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<li><strong>Thursday, July 1, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>An article on the "rounding up" and forced registration of Canadian citizens of Austrian and German origin at Phoenix, British Columbia [another mining community that no longer exists, abandoned in the 1920s]. The article notes that many pioneers in Alberta had not filed for Canadian citizenship when taking up their homesteads [I believe my four paternal grandparents from Galacia would fall in this category.] <br />[img:7:thumbnail]</li>
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<li><strong>Friday, July 2, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>A heat-wave is being felt throughout the Vancouver and Victoria area and down the coast to California. All-time record high temperatures in Victoria, reaching 83 ⁰F [28.3 ⁰C] recorded at the Dominion observatory at Gonzales Hill. Downtown was hotter. [And it is hotter now, 100 years later.]<br />[img:8:thumbnail][img:9:thumbnail][img:10:thumbnail]</li>
<li>A live baboon is sighted on Gorge Road in Victoria. The police are called, but have no idea how to catch a baboon, so they call the pound. The dog-catcher's equipment is not up to the task of catching a baboon. Everyone gives up after sunset, "leaving the monkey to its own devices". By morning it is gone and no one is quite sure where it came from or where it went.<br />[img:11:thumbnail]</li>
<li>The first whaling ships from the newly formed Victoria Whaling Company leave port. A good season is expected.<br />[img:12:thumbnail][img:13:thumbnail]</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Saturday, July 3, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>A weird little jab at a competing newspaper, the Kamloops Sentinal, and the "limited intelligence" of its readers is printed as filler on the editorial page. <br />[img:14:thumbnail]</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Sunday, July 4, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>Two hundred internned "alien enemies" are now at work constructing a road from Arrow Lake to Vernon for the benefit of an American-owned mine. The article states "the prisoners do this work volunarily" yet it was reported <a href="http://www.mbarrick.com/blog/150607/daily-colonist-june-1-7-1915" rel="nofollow">on June 5</a> that the prisoners were marched out at bayonet-point with two of them being stabbed in the process for refusing to work. <br />[img:15:thumbnail]</li>
<li>A full page ad for the new 1916 model Hudson motor-car.<br />[img:16:thumbnail]</li>
<li>A picture of the new statue of Queen Victoria that is being cast from bronze and nearly ready for installation in front of the Parliament Buildings in Victoria.<br />[img:17:thumbnail]</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Monday, July 5, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>[no paper on Mondays]</li>
</ul></li>
</ul><p><small>[ source: <a href="http://www.britishcolonist.ca/dateList.php?year=1915" rel="nofollow">http://www.britishcolonist.ca/dateList.php?year=1915</a> ]</small></p>
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</div>Mon, 06 Jul 2015 18:36:20 +0000Michael R. Barrick7995 at https://www.mbarrick.comhttps://www.mbarrick.com/blog/150706/daily-colonist-june-29-july-5-1915#commentsThe British Colonist, July 1, 1867https://www.mbarrick.com/blog/150630/british-colonist-july-1-1867
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</div>Tue, 30 Jun 2015 23:20:11 +0000Michael R. Barrick7994 at https://www.mbarrick.comhttps://www.mbarrick.com/blog/150630/british-colonist-july-1-1867#commentsThe Daily Colonist, June 22–28, 1915https://www.mbarrick.com/blog/150628/daily-colonist-june-22-28-1915
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>#dailycolonist1915 - News out of Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years ago.</p>
<p>[The bulk of the war lurches on. The Anglo-French push in the Dardanelles continues, German and Austrian forces make a little headway in repelling the Russians in Galacia, all the other fronts are pretty much as they have been for weeks. The American and Germans are tediously talking about the angry letters already exchanged and threatening more stern diplomacy. All the interesting things are more local, the tangential and trivial oddness that has been forgotten, including things that echo some current things because forgotten history really does get repeated.] </p>
<ul><li><strong>Tuesday, June 22, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>Terrorists cross the river between Detroit and Windsor and damage a clothing factory in Walkerville [then a separate town, now part of Windsor], doing over $10,000 damage and also attempt to blow up the Windsor Armoury. <br />[img:1:thumbnail][img:2:thumbnail]</li>
<li>Due to these attacks, recruitment is up in the Windsor area.<br />[img:3:thumbnail]</li>
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<li><strong>Wednesday, June 23, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>The Prince of Wales [future King Edward VIII] turns 21. King George requests no public celebration and the Prince remain at the front. <br />[img:4:thumbnail][img:5:thumbnail]</li>
<li>A lecture on the theme "The Largest Telescope in the World and What It Means to Science" to take place tonight at the Victoria Theatre, extolling the benefits expected from the new observatory being constructed on Little Saanich Mountain.<br />[img:6:thumbnail][img:7:thumbnail]</li>
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<li><strong>Thursday, June 24, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>An Austrian prisoner, escaping from the alien internment camp in Spirit Lake, QC, is shot by a local boy. Three other escapees are rounded up by posse.<br />[img:8:thumbnail]</li>
<li>Victoria doctors urge city council to help in providing rehabilitation facilities for local drug addicts. The numbers of the drug-addicted in Victoria are on the rise following the passing of stringent regulations in the United States. The article also notes, "It is the general impression among people who are not cognizant of existing conditions that the drug habit is confined almost, if not wholly, to the Oriental element in the city. As a matter of fact the habit is indulged in by many white persons..." <br />[img:9:thumbnail][img:10:thumbnail]</li>
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<li><strong>Friday, June 25, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>A foiled plot by the Ottoman government to divide Italian forces by inciting an Arab revolt in Libya [the an Italian colony] comes to light. <br />[img:11:thumbnail]</li>
<li>A new whaling company is formed in Victoria. Whaling stations will be operated at Kyuquot and Nanden Harbour. A short but profitable whaling season is expected.<br />[img:12:thumbnail][img:13:thumbnail]</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Saturday, June 26, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>Another article on the doctors of the Victoria Medical Society's appeal to Victoria city council to help set up a rehabilitation facility for drug addicts. It is noted that "drug users were invalids, not criminals" and that treatment in hospital by string of different doctors is ineffective and that "patients should be held for some months and given outdoor life and work" under the care of a single doctor. <br />[img:14:thumbnail][img:15:thumbnail][img:16:thumbnail]</li>
<li>A review of Dr. Plaskett's address to local astronomers last Wednesday.<br />[img:17:thumbnail]</li>
<li>The Victoria and Island Development Association is arranging a public outing the the site of the Dominion Observatory on Little Saanich Mountain "with the idea of educating the public to the importance of the observatory project..."<br />[img:18:thumbnail][img:19:thumbnail]</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Sunday, June 27, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>Map of the current battle lines between Austro-Hungary and Russia. <br />[img:20:thumbnail]</li>
<li>A photo of Sub-Lt. Reginald A. J. Warneford who made history two weeks ago on June 7 (reported June 8) as the first pilot to bring down a Zeppelin with a single aeroplane. He was awarded the British Victoria Cross and French Legion of Honour for the feat. After the ceremony where he received his Legion of Honour medal on June 17, he died in a plane crash later that day in a routine flight to transfer a plane from one airfield to another (one of the wings of the plane collapsed, killing Warneford and his passenger.)<br />[img:21:thumbnail]</li>
<li>An ad for an adventure documentary "Salisbury's Wild Life Pictures" playing at the Royal Victoria Theatre. <br />[img:22:thumbnail]</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Monday, June 28, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>[no paper on Mondays]</li>
</ul></li>
</ul><p><small>[ source: <a href="http://www.britishcolonist.ca/dateList.php?year=1915 ]" rel="nofollow">http://www.britishcolonist.ca/dateList.php?year=1915 ]</a></small></p>
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</div>Mon, 29 Jun 2015 06:20:14 +0000Michael R. Barrick7993 at https://www.mbarrick.comhttps://www.mbarrick.com/blog/150628/daily-colonist-june-22-28-1915#commentsThe Daily Colonist, June 8–21, 1915https://www.mbarrick.com/blog/150621/daily-colonist-june-8-21-1915
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>#dailycolonist1915 - The news out of Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years ago. </p>
<p>[This instalment covers two weeks to make up for missing my usual post last week. While the Italians are in the war now, and while horrific fighting on both European fronts and also in the Dardanelles continues, the news of it is repetitive and not particularly enlightening. The most interesting and remarkable things, however, are outside that realm: Zeppelin raids, submarine pirates, the (bizarre when seen with modern eyes) casual racism of 1915, and more.]</p>
<ul><li><strong>Tuesday, June 8, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>Canadian pilot Reginald J. Warneford makes history by being the first to down a Zeppelin with a single aeroplane. Unfortunately the burning wreckage of the Zeppelin lands on a Belgian orphanage, killing two nuns and two children.<br />[img:1:thumbnail][img:2:thumbnail][img:3:thumbnail][img:4:thumbnail][img:5:thumbnail]</li>
<li>The fantastic story of a man pinned down for a day in a shell crater who spent the whole day throwing German grenades back at the Germans. <br />[img:6:thumbnail]</li>
<li>An ad encouraging women to include Chiclets, "the dainty confection of refinement", in their order when telephoning their grocer. <br />[img:7:thumbnail]</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Wednesday, June 9, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>Call for another 35,000 men is issued, bringing the Canadian total to 150,000 men. <br />[img:8:thumbnail][img:9:thumbnail]</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Thursday, June 10, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>Two young "Austrian" men [most likely ethnic Ukrainians from Galacia] are shot in an escape attempt from the internment camp in Brandon, Manitoba. Both are expected to survive.<br />[img:10:thumbnail]</li>
<li>A letter home from a soldier from [my home town of] Duncan.<br />[img:11:thumbnail][img:12:thumbnail]</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Friday, June 11, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>The American government responds to the German response to the American note about the sinking of the Lusitania. The entire letter is reproduced, but the gist of is that the Americans call bullshit on the German claims that the Lusitania was armed and carrying soldiers and munitions, and that if that is what the Germans believed then boarding and searching the ship would have been in order, not just sinking it without warning, and that the Germans have no right to declare a "war zone" and fire on neutral civilians.<br />[img:13:thumbnail][img:14:thumbnail][img:15:thumbnail][img:16:thumbnail][img:17:thumbnail][img:18:thumbnail][img:19:thumbnail]</li>
<li>A couple of disturbing examples of lists of casualties appearing beside lists of things advertised for sale [illustrating how ordinary columns of dead and wounded have become, even this early in the war.]<br />[img:20:thumbnail][img:21:thumbnail]</li>
<li>Photograph of a model of the new observatory being built in Victoria to house the [as yet] world's largest telescope.<br />[img:22:thumbnail]</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Saturday, June 12, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>Sub-Lieut. Warneford's amazing first-hand account of single-handedly downing Zeppelin, including how the explosion of the air-bag threw his aeroplane upside-down.<br />[img:23:thumbnail][img:24:thumbnail]</li>
<li>A bizarre and fascinating little article on a meeting of the directors of Uplands, Limited (developer the very up-scale Uplands neighbourhood of Victoria), all in active service in the French army, meeting in the trenches and discussing the development.<br />[img:25:thumbnail][img:26:thumbnail]</li>
<li>A utterly bizarre ad for Black-Cat cigarettes showing an anthropomorphic black cat receiving a military medal. <br />[img:27:thumbnail]</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Sunday, June 13, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>The Daisy-Chain, Sunshine and Rainbow chapters of the Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire meet to organize a garden party.<br />[img:28:thumbnail]</li>
<li>The contract for the construction of the observatory on Little Saanich Mountain outside Victoria is awarded. <br />[img:29:thumbnail][img:30:thumbnail]</li>
<li>A wounded soldier from Barrie, ON confirms report of Germans crucifying wounded Canadians.<br />[img:31:thumbnail]</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Monday, June 14, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>[no paper on Mondays]</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Tuesday, June 15, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>[nothing caught my attention]</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Wednesday, June 16, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>After British, Canadian, and other workers from Allied countries walked out, refusing to work with German and Austrian workers, the mine at Fernie an officer from the office in charge of alien internment was sent from Ottawa. All people in Fernie born in enemy countries, regardless of current citizenship, must register.<br />[img:32:thumbnail]</li>
<li>Board of Trade inquiry into the sinking of the Lusitania opens. Testimony is given that the ship was not armed, <br />[img:33:thumbnail][img:34:thumbnail][img:35:thumbnail][img:36:thumbnail]</li>
<li>All week leading up to the Lusitania inquiry there have been articles about the sinking of unarmed vessels, calling the Germans pirates and murderers.<br />[img:37:thumbnail]</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Thurday, June 17, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>A Zeppelin raid on the northeast coast of England kills 40 people and injures 80. A French air-raid on the German city of Karlsruhe is reported to have killed 200 people. <br />[img:38:thumbnail][img:39:thumbnail]</li>
<li>Germans are reported to be enraged by the French air-raid on the German city of Karlsruhe.<br />[img:40:thumbnail]</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Friday, June 18, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>[100 years ago 100 years ago:] A reproduction of a story from the June 22, 1815 edition of the London Times reporting the victory of the British over Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo on June 18, 1815.<br />[img:41:thumbnail]</li>
<li>Testimony at the Lusitania inquiry reveals that two submarines were lying in wait for the liner, that the lifeboats were not all in good repair and not all ready to be deployed, that the ship did not make precautionary manoeuvres to conserve coal, and that the crew responsible for the steerage passengers panicked. <br />[img:42:thumbnail][img:43:thumbnail][img:44:thumbnail][img:45:thumbnail]</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Saturday, June 19, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>A report from Germany that the kaiser calling Canadian troops "the second Gurkhas"—a compliment to the fighting pluck of Canadians [Nepalese Gurkhas had–and have–a reputation as fearless fighters.]<br />[img:46:thumbnail]</li>
<li>Recent air raids by boths sides have resulted in the death of well over two hundred people, mostly non-combatants. <br />[img:47:thumbnail][img:48:thumbnail]</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Sunday, June 20, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>Fighting in the Dardanelles has been going this whole time. The front page today has large pictures of the British and French commanders of the operations. The British continue to advance, at high cost, in Gallipoli. <br />[img:49:thumbnail][img:50:thumbnail][img:51:thumbnail]</li>
<li>It has come out how British ships have been safely crossing the Channel despite German submarines. Apparently and amazingly an underwater wire fence has be slung across the channel to prevent submarine movement. <br />[img:52:thumbnail][img:53:thumbnail]</li>
<li>Another report of the Germans comparing Canadians to Gurkhas, calling us "White Ghurkas" to be precise. <br />[img:54:thumbnail]</li>
<li>An ad [stunning in its casual racism] for a black-face minstrel show at the Pantages.<br />[img:55:thumbnail]</li>
<li>A lengthy story on the 21-year-old Edward, Prince of Wales becoming a man in active service. [This is the future King Edward VIII, who will reign for only 11 months in the 1936 before abdicating to marry divorcée Wallis Simpson, who was still married to her second husband at the time of the proposal. I personally believe that were it not for what he experienced in the war Edward would not have had the courage to abdicate for love in 1936. They remained together until Edward's death in 1972 and during the 1950's and 60's were "Jet Set" socialites.]<br />[img:56:thumbnail][img:57:thumbnail][img:58:thumbnail][img:59:thumbnail][img:60:thumbnail][img:61:thumbnail][img:62:thumbnail]</li>
<li>A Toronto factory is making "giant" bomber aeroplanes for the British, larger than any current aeroplane.<br />[img:63:thumbnail]</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Monday, June 21, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>[no paper on Mondays]</li>
</ul></li>
</ul><p><small>[ source: <a href="http://www.britishcolonist.ca/dateList.php?year=1915" rel="nofollow">http://www.britishcolonist.ca/dateList.php?year=1915</a> ]</small></p>
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</div>Sun, 21 Jun 2015 20:32:08 +0000Michael R. Barrick7989 at https://www.mbarrick.comhttps://www.mbarrick.com/blog/150621/daily-colonist-june-8-21-1915#commentsThe Daily Colonist, June 1–7, 1915https://www.mbarrick.com/blog/150607/daily-colonist-june-1-7-1915
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>#dailycolonist1915 - The news out of Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years ago:</p>
<p>[You'd almost think this week's news was a steampunk fanfic and not the actual news from 100 years ago. We've got submarine and Zeppelin pirates, a secret submarine base in Asia Minor, Zeppelins bombing London, the king's birthday, and earls being knighted. We also have the begginings of foced labour in Canadian concentration camps and the Armenian Genocide in Turkey. But we wrap up the week with good news from Denmark.]</p>
<ul><li><strong>Tuesday, June 1, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>Acts of piracy by German submarines and Zeppelins. German submarines chase the White Star Line passenger liner Megantic as it departs off the coast of Ireland. 40 people are killed in a Zeppelin raid on the Finnish coast. A Danish steamer, a Russian ship and three British steamers are sunk by submarines while one other British steamer narrowly escapes two attacks. <br />[img:1:thumbnail][img:2:thumbnail][img:3:thumbnail][img:4:thumbnail]</li>
<li>German reply to American condemnation for the sinking of the Lusitania defends and attempts to justify the action, with "technicalities."<br />[img:5:thumbnail][img:6:thumbnail]</li>
<li>Jitney by-law goes into effect in Vancouver requiring insurance and certain safety standards [representing the beginning of the regulations ride-sharing outfits like Uber seek to undermine and circumvent.]<br />[img:7:thumbnail]</li>
<li>A secret submarine base is discovered in Asia Minor and shelled by British warships. Meanwhile the Gallipoli meat-grinder continues to chew up Aussies, Kiwis and Turks by the thousands.<br />[img:8:thumbnail]</li>
<li>Full text of the German reply to the American "Note" on submarine warfare.<br />[img:9:thumbnail][img:10:thumbnail][img:11:thumbnail][img:12:thumbnail][img:13:thumbnail]</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Wednesday, June 2, 1915</strong>
<ul><li> Zeppelins reach London. 90 bombs dropped in the night, killing a child, a man and two women. The headline "Zeppelin Raid Comes at Last" and the tone of the article seem oddly relieved that the waiting is over and the emergency procedures proved adequate.<br />[img:14:thumbnail][img:15:thumbnail]</li>
<li>Entry of Italy into the war is said to have affected the morale of Turkish troops and the Germans are having difficulty supplying the Turks. However, Armenians are being massacred, with the death toll exacerbated by typhus and famine. Men are being killed wholesale, "women, if old and ugly, were murdered or beaten; if young and pretty they were taken away. The children generally were spared, but a few were put to death for pure amusement."<br />[img:16:thumbnail][img:17:thumbnail]</li>
<li>The filling of the False Creek mud-flats [the area from Science World to the hill up to Clark] and the construction of a station and facilities for the Great Northern Railway Company is approved [and now you know why the 2nd Ave between Main and Clark is "Great Northern Way"]. Work is expected to be complete by 1917. Meanwhile, C.P.R. Western argues against reducing rates for freight to Nanaimo. <br />[img:18:thumbnail][img:19:thumbnail]</li>
<li>A short article describing the modern technology in torpedoes that allows an expert torpedo officer to "hit a large vessel practically every time up to range of one mile".<br />[img:20:thumbnail]</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Thursday, June 3, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>King George V's 50th birthday. There is a large photo of the king on the front page with the caption "God Save the King!" An accompanying article listing those receiving knighthoods, including Field Marshal Earl Kitchener (in charge of the British Imperial army) and several Canadians. Other articles [not reproduced here] announce that the mayor of Victoria has declared a half-holiday and all shops and business should close by 1:00 p.m. to allow people to celebrate the king's birthday.<br />[img:21:thumbnail][img:22:thumbnail][img:23:thumbnail][img:24:thumbnail][img:25:thumbnail]</li>
<li>Meanwhile the Gallipoli meat-grinder continues to chew up Aussies, Kiwis and Turks by the thousands.<br />[img:26:thumbnail]</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Friday, June 4, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>Provincial police have been busy rounding up "alien enemies" in northern Vancouver Island. 34 new prisoners were sent to Nanaimo, to be sent on to the concentration camp in Vernon. <br />[img:27:thumbnail]</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Saturday, June 5, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>Prisoners at the concentration camp in Vernon are marched out to Arrow Lake (about 150 km) to build a road to service an American-owned gold mine. 600 prisoners are expected to be forced to work. There are reports that two men were bayoneted, with one seriously injured for refusing to work. Others were marched out at bayonet point. [Bear in mind that these men are, by and large, ordinary farmers and labourers who are not allowed to leave the country, not allowed to become citizens, and not allowed to work because they were born in the wrong place. Many are ethnic Ukrainians from Galicia that fled persecution under the Austrio-Hungarian Empire.]<br />[img:28:thumbnail][img:29:thumbnail]</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Sunday, June 6, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>Germany official declares war on Italy in response to Italy declaring war on Austria.<br />[img:30:thumbnail]</li>
<li>Denmark passes a new constitution that grants women's suffrage and abolishes unequal social and electoral privileges for the aristocracy. <br />[img:31:thumbnail]</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Monday, June 7, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>[no paper on Mondays]</li>
</ul></li>
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</div>Mon, 08 Jun 2015 04:18:31 +0000Michael R. Barrick7986 at https://www.mbarrick.comhttps://www.mbarrick.com/blog/150607/daily-colonist-june-1-7-1915#commentsThe Daily Colonist, May 25–31, 1915https://www.mbarrick.com/blog/150531/daily-colonist-may-25-31-1915
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>#dailycolonist1915 - News out of Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years ago:</p>
<ul><li><strong>Tueday, May 25, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>Italy is officially in the war on the side of Britain and France. Italians living in Victoria celebrate in the streets.<br />[img:1:thumbnail][img:2:thumbnail][img:3:thumbnail]</li>
<li>Still heavy ground and naval fighting in the Dardanelles. [And an amusing headline because of the use of an idiom that has changed since 1915.]<br />[img:4:thumbnail][img:5:thumbnail]</li>
<li>Germans make new gas attacks near Ypres.<br />[img:6:thumbnail][img:7:thumbnail][img:8:thumbnail]</li>
<li>The British Columbia Indian Lands Commission recommends to the federal government that the Kitsilano Indian reserve be handed over to the Vancouver Harbour Commission.<br />[img:9:thumbnail]</li>
<li>The horrific death of Mr. Albert Chatton, who slipped and fell off a log at Cordova Bay and had his head fatally crushed in front of his three children.<br />[img:10:thumbnail]</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Wednesday, May 26, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>Another huge gas attack, this one about five miles wide, by the Germans near Ypres. <br />[img:11:thumbnail][img:12:thumbnail]</li>
<li>The Italians invade Austria by land and the Austrians attack the east coast of Italy with naval and aerial attacks.<br />[img:13:thumbnail][img:14:thumbnail][img:15:thumbnail]</li>
<li>New coalition government in Britain is approved by King George V and cabinet positions are announced.<br />[img:16:thumbnail][img:17:thumbnail][img:18:thumbnail][img:19:thumbnail][img:20:thumbnail]</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Thursday, May 27, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>Victoria city council is to be urged that when providing relief to the unemployed with work on civic projects to give preference to "married men with families, who are British subjects."<br />[img:21:thumbnail]</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Friday, May 28, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>Mine explosion in Nanaimo. 22 killed and one more expected to die from his injuries.<br />[img:22:thumbnail][img:23:thumbnail][img:24:thumbnail][img:25:thumbnail]</li>
<li>Searching continues, but there is little hope of recovering any more bodies from the Lusitania.<br />[img:26:thumbnail]</li>
<li>¼-page illustration celebrating Canadians at the Second Battle of Ypres.<br />[img:27:thumbnail]</li>
<li>The North Pacific Association of Amateur Oarsmen has called off all international regattas owing to the fact that almost all men from the Canadian clubs are serving in the war. American crews will be competing among themselves. The Vancouver Rowing Club plans to have a small regatta confined to new members and fours, doubles and singles only. <br />[img:28:thumbnail]</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Saturday, May 29, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>Weird news on the shipping page about a Chinese man being deported for leprosy. He was shipped in a box from Winnipeg to Victoria and transferred to a ship bound for Yokohama and Hong Kong.<br />[img:29:thumbnail]</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Sunday, May 30, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>The gas being used by the Germans is identified as chlorine [for the fist time that I have seen] with a detailed first-hand account by a Canadian soldier recuperating from an attack. <br />[img:30:thumbnail][img:31:thumbnail][img:32:thumbnail][img:33:thumbnail][img:34:thumbnail]</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Monday, May 31, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>[no paper on Mondays]</li>
</ul></li>
</ul><p><small>[source: <a href="http://www.britishcolonist.ca/dateList.php?year=1915" rel="nofollow">http://www.britishcolonist.ca/dateList.php?year=1915</a> ]</small></p>
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</div>Sun, 31 May 2015 19:41:57 +0000Michael R. Barrick7984 at https://www.mbarrick.comhttps://www.mbarrick.com/blog/150531/daily-colonist-may-25-31-1915#commentsThe Daily Colonist, May 18–24, 1915https://www.mbarrick.com/blog/150523/daily-colonist-may-18-24-1915
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>#dailycolonist1915 - News out of Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years ago:</p>
<ul><li><strong>Tuesday, May 18, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>Three columns of casualties with pictures of local men "Who Have Fallen in Battle" on the front page.<br />[img:1:thumbnail]</li>
<li>While not official yet, the Italian government is said to have finally made a decision about entering the war.<br />[img:2:thumbnail][img:3:thumbnail]</li>
<li>Account of a spectacular aerial battle over Brussels between 27 allied aeroplanes and a Zeppelin. The Zeppelin was downed at the cost of two aeroplanes.<br />[img:4:thumbnail]</li>
<li>An article tucked away deep in the paper admits that the fight in Gallipoli "is a question of how many men you can afford to lose to capture each trench and each kilometre of soil."<br />[img:5:thumbnail][img:6:thumbnail]</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Wednesday, May 19, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>An amendment to the British North America Act to add new members to the Canadian Senate to represent the western provinces has passed the British House of Commons and moved to the House of Lords, where it is expected to pass.<br />[img:7:thumbnail]</li>
<li>The casualty list has moved back to the second page, although it is still in excess of the three columns. The fourth page includes more details on local men that have died.<br />[img:8:thumbnail]</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Thursday, May 20, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>British Columbia provincial court rules that indians are not restricted from hunting on reserve lands by provincial game restrictions because the reserves are established by the federal Indian Act and the exclusive jurisdiction of the Dominion Parliament, so the provincial restrictions do not apply.<br />[img:9:thumbnail][img:10:thumbnail][img:11:thumbnail]</li>
<li>An article on the last page presents anecdotal evidence that Germans are crucifying captured Canadians.<br />[img:12:thumbnail][img:13:thumbnail]</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Friday, May 21, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>There is a picture of the king of Italy on the front page beside an article detailing that Italy, while it has not yet done so officially, is unquestionably going to declare war on Austria. A motion has passed in Parliament to give the Italian government full authority for war, and the German, Austrian and Ottoman ambassadors to Italy are preparing to leave the country.<br />[img:14:thumbnail][img:15:thumbnail][img:16:thumbnail][img:18:thumbnail]</li>
<li>An article on the death of one Australian General and the wounding of another mentions also mentions that over 1,000 Australians are on yesterday's casualty list. That's just one day's worth. Ground fighting in Gallipoli has been going on for almost a month now.<br />[img:19:thumbnail]</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Saturday, May 22, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>Map of the Ypres area on the front page, noting Langemarck, where Canadians have been involved in heavy fighting this past week.<br />[img:20:thumbnail]</li>
<li>The bill to give the Italian government authority for war has passed the Italian senate. Austria is moving troops to the Italian border. War is all but declared. <br />[img:21:thumbnail][img:22:thumbnail][img:23:thumbnail]</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Sunday, May 23, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>The German reply to the stern note sent by the United States government over the sinking of the Lusitania is not expected any sooner than the middle of next week, since the German government is far more concerned about war with Italy at the moment.<br />[img:24:thumbnail][img:25:thumbnail]</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Monday, May 24, 1915 (Empire Day)</strong>
<ul><li>[no paper on Mondays]</li>
</ul></li>
</ul><p><small>[ source: <a href="http://www.britishcolonist.ca/dateList.php?year=1915" rel="nofollow">http://www.britishcolonist.ca/dateList.php?year=1915</a> ]</small></p>
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</div>Sat, 23 May 2015 18:54:56 +0000Michael R. Barrick7974 at https://www.mbarrick.comhttps://www.mbarrick.com/blog/150523/daily-colonist-may-18-24-1915#commentsThe Daily Colonist, May 11–17, 1915https://www.mbarrick.com/blog/150518/daily-colonist-may-11-17-1915
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>#dailycolonist1915 - The news out of Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years ago:</p>
<p>[This is the largest post in this series to date, with 85 "clippings". There are huge Canadian casualty lists from Ypres, anti-German rioting throughout the British Empire, lots of news about the sinking of the Lusitania, fighting continues at Gallipoli, and local news about transit and "ride-sharing" that has a striking relevancy today.]</p>
<ul><li><strong>Tuesday, May 11, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>On the front page there are nearly three full columns of Canadian casualties again today and pictures of locals wounded and killed.<br />[img:1:thumbnail]</li>
<li>Coroner's inquest into the sinking of the Lusitania legally establishes a charge of murder against the officers of the submarine, the German Emperor and the Government of Germany. The article includes the testimony of the captain of the Lusitania. <br />[img:2:thumbnail][img:3:thumbnail][img:4:thumbnail][img:5:thumbnail][img:6:thumbnail]</li>
<li>Anti-German riots in Liverpool<br />[img:7:thumbnail]</li>
<li>Following the riot on Saturday, there are more anti-German rioting in Victoria on Sunday. Military and police forces are patrolling the the city to prevent more riots. All liquor sales banned for the next three days.<br />[img:8:thumbnail][img:9:thumbnail][img:10:thumbnail]</li>
<li>An enlightening [and still relevant] editorial on what it means when the Riot Act is evoked (i.e. "Reading the riot act"), including the text of what is read.<br />[img:11:thumbnail]</li>
<li>Approximately half a page devoted to reporting on the repercussions of the riots in Victoria [that doesn't really say much so I haven't reproduced it in detail.]<br />[img:12:thumbnail]</li>
<li>Seven people from Victoria among the survivors of the Lusitania. Several other locals are dead.<br />[img:13:thumbnail]</li>
<li>B.C. Electric Railway's [precursor to Translink and B.C. Transit] experiment in increasing revenues by encouraging ridership with reduced fares, that they are calling "Tango Tickets" [the first fare-savers] is to far a great success. <br />[img:14:thumbnail]</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Wednesday, May 12, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>Two columns of new Canadian casualties on the front page.<br />[img:15:thumbnail]</li>
<li>President Wilson is drafting a stern letter to the German Government about the sinking of the Lusitania, demanding assurances that attacks on unarmed ships carrying noncombatants cease and seeking reparations for the American citizens killed in the sinking.<br />[img:16:thumbnail][img:17thumbnail][img:18:thumbnail]</li>
<li>Anti-German sentiment is running high in Britain due to Lusitantia. Riots in London, Liverpool, Manchester, Salford and Birkenhead.<br />[img:19:thumbnail][img:20:thumbnail][img:21:thumbnail]</li>
<li>Mayor of Victoria is threatened if the municipal government makes reparations to Germans who lost property in the riots. The mayor dismisses the threatening letter, "if the common sense of the writer…was in proportion to the correctness of the spelling he saw little reason for taking the communication seriously."<br />[img:22:thumbnail][img:23:thumbnail]</li>
<li>An article in the "Women's Realm" section encourages women to demand equal pay for equal work, and explains that it is the best interest of men not to have their wages undermined by the cheap labour of women.<br />[img:24:thumbnail]</li>
<li>News of the fighting in Gallipoli is relegated the 9th page. An Australian submarine has been sunk and heavy fighting continues on the land.<br />[img:25:thumbnail][img:26:thumbnail]</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Thursday, May 13, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>Three columns of new casualties on the front page today.<br />[img:27:thumbnail]</li>
<li>Former U.S. president, Colonel Theodore Roosevelt denounces German sinking of the Lusitania in a letter to the Metropolitan, comparing German actions to those of Barbary Coast pirates and current president Wilson's neutrality to Pontius Pilate.<br />[img:28:thumbnail][img:29:thumbnail][img:30:thumbnail][img:31:thumbnail][img:32:thumbnail]</li>
<li>Vancouver enacts jitney [what we would now call "ride-sharing"] safety regulations, including insurace requirements.<br />[img:33:thumbnail][img:34:thumbnail]</li>
<li>Several cases regarding the posession of stolen goods from looting during the anti-German riots Saturday and Sunday are heard in court.<br />[img:35:thumbnail][img:36:thumbnail]</li>
<li>Other people are returning stolen goods rather than be caught with them.<br />[img:37:thumbnail][img:38:thumbnail]</li>
<li>Meanwhile in England, rioting and vandalism are being directed not just at Germans, but foreigners in general.<br />[img:39:thumbnail][img:40:thumbnail]</li>
<li>Fishermen spot as many as 100 bodies from the Lusitania floating off the coast of Ireland. <br />[img:41:thumbnail][img:42:thumbnail]</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Friday, May 14, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>Another two columns of Canadian dead, wounded and missing on the front page, along with pictures of downtown Johannesburg, South Africa [complete with capricious hand-drawn clouds] where there have also been anti-German riots.<br />[img:43:thumbnail][img:44:thumbnail]</li>
<li>Expected, but as yet not official, response from German government to U.S. President Wilson's stern letter is negative.<br />[img:45:thumbnail]</li>
<li>Anti-German rioting spreads throughout the Empire with new riots in South Africa and Australia.<br />[img:46:thumbnail][img:47:thumbnail][img:48:thumbnail]</li>
<li>British battleship <em>Goliath</em> sunk by Turks in the Dardanelles, 500 dead. <br />[img:49:thumbnail][img:50:thumbnail]</li>
<li>Ground fighting continues in Gallipoli. Turk casualties are reported to be "enormous", but no mention of the number of casualties among the Australian and New Zealand troops.<br />[img:51:thumbnail]</li>
<li>British admiralty will order 10 million board-feet of lumber from British Columbia, with the order overseen by Mr. H. R. MacMillan [a name Vancouverites will recognise: this is the man the planetarium is named after], chief of the Forest Branch of the Provincial Government and "acting in special capacity for the Federal Government". A lack of available freighters has up to this point been a problem for shipping wood to Britain, but in this case the British Admiralty will be providing their own transportation for the lumber.<br />[img:52:thumbnail][img:53:thumbnail][img:54:thumbnail][img:55:thumbnail]</li>
<li>South African troops take the capital of German Southwest Africa [Nambia], effectively securing the entire territory for the British Empire.<br />[img:56:thumbnail][img:57:thumbnail]</li>
<li>An article reproducing the U.S. Governments letter to the German Imperial Government.<br />[img:58:thumbnail][img:59:thumbnail][img:60:thumbnail][img:61:thumbnail][img:62:thumbnail][img:63:thumbnail][img:64:thumbnail][img:65:thumbnail]</li>
<li>Nine more bodies are recovered from the Lusitania. The Cunard Line is now offering $5 (1£) for every body recovered. The wealthy Vanderbilt family is offering $1,000 USD for the recovery of the body of Alfred G. Vanderbilt. <br />[img:66:thumbnail]</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Saturday, May 15, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>Rather horrifically, more than half of the front page, five columns, are devoted to today's casualty list.<br />[img:67:thumbnail]</li>
<li>Germans vow to continue submarine warfare despite American protests and vow that "The Mauretania [The Lusitania's idential sister ship] or any other British liner will be torpedoed, sunk and meet the same fate as the Lusitania if our submarines can read them".<br />[img:68:thumbnail][img:69:thumbnail]</li>
<li>28 more bodies from the Lusitania recovered, incuding the body of a baby less than 3 months old. <br />[img:70:thumbnail][img:71:thumbnail]</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Sunday, May 16, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>A somewhat shorter casualtiy list today, not even two columns, plus pictures of five brothers from Victora in active service, one dead, one wounded. <br />[img:72:thumbnail]</li>
<li>The war is even effecting the great houses of England. Winston Churchill's mother, Lady Randolph Churchill, has takled the important problem of how to dress female servants taking on the traditionally male roles such as footman. All this while a scarcity of ships is impacting the tea trade and causing a shortage and higher prices.<br />[img:73:thumbnail][img:74:thumbnail][img:75:thumbnail]</li>
<li>The Victora Provician Normal School [Now the main building of Camosun College] celebrated the completion of their first full term. (Normal Schools are where standardised teaching practices are taught.) The article praises the modernity and comprehensive facilities of the building.<br />[img:76:thumbnail][img:77:thumbnail][img:78:thumbnail][img:79:thumbnail][img:80:thumbnail][img:81:thumbnail]</li>
<li>A full page devoted to the 250th anniversary of the Hudson's Bay Company, with pictures of store on Douglas Street in Victoria under construction and the store in Vancouver on the corner of Granville and Georgia. <br />[img:82:thumbnail]</li>
<li>An article summarising the nearly 5,000 Canadian casualties to date.<br />[img:83:thumbnail][img:84:thumbnail]</li>
<li>Siver Spring Brewery runs a ½-page ad to put to rest rumours that one of its largest shareholder is a German and that some of its employees are Germans. Announcing "that every person connected with it in any capacity whatever, whether as share-holder, employe [sic] or otherwise, is a British subject."<br />[img:85:thumbnail]</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Monday, May 17, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>[no paper on Mondays]</li>
</ul></li>
</ul><p><small>[ source: <a href="http://www.britishcolonist.ca/dateList.php?year=1915" rel="nofollow">http://www.britishcolonist.ca/dateList.php?year=1915</a> ]</small></p>
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</div>Mon, 18 May 2015 17:47:48 +0000Michael R. Barrick7971 at https://www.mbarrick.comhttps://www.mbarrick.com/blog/150518/daily-colonist-may-11-17-1915#commentsThe Daily Colonist, May 4–10, 1915https://www.mbarrick.com/blog/150510/daily-colonist-may-4-10-1915
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>#dailycolonist1915 - The news out of Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years ago:</p>
<p>[News from Ypres continues to dominate the news this week, with Gallipoli taking second seat until another huge milestone of the war, the sinking of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Lusitania" rel="nofollow">R.M.S. Lusitania</a>, takes place on the 7th, with the news reaching Victoria on the 8th. It seems the endless grim lists of casualties punctuated by the sinking of the Lusitania is too much for some, and anti-German riots break out in Victoria.] </p>
<ul><li><strong>Tuesday, May 4, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>The casualty list from the German gas attack at Ypres continues to grow. Four whole columns on the front page to list names added today, and the list includes many British Columbians.<br />[img:1:thumbnail][img:2:thumbnail]</li>
<li>Germans make new gas attacks near Ypres.<br />[img:3:thumbnail][img:4:thumbnail]</li>
<li>It appears that the battle in Gallipoli is going well for British forces<br />[img:5:thumbnail]</li>
<li>Interesting local news from Victoria. Burglars use nitro-glycerine to blow open the safe at Finch &amp; Finch [a clothing store whose beautiful ads I have featured several times] and make off with the cash within.<br />[img:6:thumbnail]</li>
<li>In order to compete with a decline in ridership due to unlicensed private taxis and buses, the B.C. Electric Railway Company [precursor to B.C. Transit &amp; Translink] decides to lower fares to attract more riders rather than reduce staff and services. An article explains the experiment [seemingly completely forgotten by Translink today] and a large half-page ad announces the new fares.<br />[img:7:thumbnail][img:8:thumbnail][img:9:thumbnail][img:10:thumbnail][img:11:thumbnail][img:12:thumbnail]</li>
<li>Unemployed enemy aliens in Victoria are to be sent off the concentration camp in Vernon.<br />[img:13:thumbnail]</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Wednesday, May 5, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>More than half of the front page is devoted to new names on the growing list of casualties from Ypres.<br />[img:14:thumbnail]</li>
<li>British budget release. Expenses for a full year of war in 1915 are expected to reach the equivalent of $5 billion Canadian dollars (£1,000,000,000 pounds) [that's approximately $10-trillion in today's dollars.]<br />[img:15:thumbnail]</li>
<li>While fighting is fierce, Australian and New Zealand troops are reported to be making "steady headway" in Gallipoli. <br />[img:16:thumbnail][img:17:thumbnail]</li>
<li>Public schools in Victoria are making preparations for the celebration of Empire Day [Victoria Day].<br />[img:18:thumbnail]</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Thursday, May 6, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>Another three columns of the front page go to listing additional casualties from Ypres.<br />[img:19:thumbnail]</li>
<li>Fighting continues in Gallipoli.<br />[img:20:thumbnail][img:21:thumbnail]</li>
<li>King George V requests that there be no special celebration of his birthday this year other than the flying of flags.<br />[img:22:thumbnail]</li>
<li>Germans continue to use gas attacks, but they are now less effective.<br />[img:23:thumbnail][img:24:thumbnail][img:25:thumbnail]</li>
<li>Allied forces consider using gas attacks in retaliation. French are reported to already have effective delivery methods for gas attacks. (<a href="http://www.mbarrick.com/blog/140927/daily-colonist-september-27-1914" rel="nofollow">Earlier in the war it was reported that the French had a gas called "Turpinite"</a> that killed so quickly that the dead were left standing, still holding their rifles.)<br />[img:26:thumbnail][img:27:thumbnail]</li>
<li>Another ½-page ad for the new reduced tram fares. This will run again on Friday as well.<br />[img:28:thumbnail]</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Friday, May 7, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>Still another three columns of the front page for addional Ypres casualties. <br />[img:29:thumbnail]</li>
<li>An article praising the "Gallant Troops From Antipodes" as Australian and New Zealand troops continue fighting in Gallipoli. This article has some detailed accounts of the battle.<br />[img:30:thumbnail][img:31:thumbnail][img:32:thumbnail][img:33:thumbnail]</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Saturday, May 8, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>The front page is completely about a German submarine sinking the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Lusitania" rel="nofollow">R.M.S. Lusitania</a>. "Pirates Take Lives of 1,500", "Submarine Gets Over 1,400 Victims". There is a large picture of the Lusitania. <br />[img:34:thumbnail]</li>
<li>Three columns of new casualties from Ypres are pushed to the second page by the news of the Lusitania.<br />[img:35:thumbnail]</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Sunday, May 9, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>The front page is completely about the sinking of the Lusitania again. There are pictures of local people who were on board. The death toll is tallied at 1,256 total. <br />[img:36:thumbail]</li>
<li>An anti-German riot breaks out in Victoria. The Blanchard Hotel, until recently anmed Kaiserhof Hotel, owned by a man born in Germany but now a naturalized British citizen, is heavily damaged. Rioters demand a Union Jack be hung in the hotel bar, and soldiers climb to the roof and hand Union Jacks from the building's flag staffs. A German social club (closed since the beginning of the war) and the former home of the German consul (who was recalled just before the war) are also targetted. Soldiers are called out from Willows camp to help the police quell the riot.<br />[img:37:thumbnail][img:38:thumbnail][img:39:thumbnail][img:40:thumbnail][img:41:thumbnail][img:42:thumbnail][img:43:thumbnail][img:44:thumbnail][img:45:thumbnail]</li>
<li>Germans claim the sinking of the Lusitania is justified by the ship being armed and carrying munitions. Britain tersely denied the accusation.<br />[img:46:thumbnail]</li>
<li>Another column and a half of casualties from Ypres, relegated to the third page by the Lusitania and the riots. <br />[img:47:thumbnail]</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Monday, May 10, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>[no paper on Mondays]</li>
</ul></li>
</ul><p><small>[ source:<a href="http://www.britishcolonist.ca/dateList.php?year=1915" rel="nofollow"> http://www.britishcolonist.ca/dateList.php?year=1915</a> ]</small></p>
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</div>Sun, 10 May 2015 22:22:59 +0000Michael R. Barrick7970 at https://www.mbarrick.comhttps://www.mbarrick.com/blog/150510/daily-colonist-may-4-10-1915#commentsThe Daily Colonist, April 27–May 3, 1915https://www.mbarrick.com/blog/150503/daily-colonist-april-27-may-3-1915
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>#dailycolonist1915 - News out of Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years ago:</p>
<p>The news this week continues to be dominated by the German gas attack at Ypres and the Canadian counter-attack that stopped the German advance, and by the on-going attack by British forces (mostly from Australia and New Zealand) on Ottoman forces in the Dardanelles near Gallipoli. The news from the Dardanelles is somewhat disturbing in its vagueness. Praise is heaped upon Canadians for holding the line at Ypres, but the cost becomes nauseatingly apparent as the week wears on... </p>
<ul><li><strong>Tuesday, April 27, 1915</strong><br />There are a large number of stories rehashing the battle at Ypres and news from the Dardanelles is mostly pushed to the side, but what there is from Gallipoli is disturbing.
<ul><li>Front page image of a battleship and the British Imperial commander of the Dardanelles Command [with the usual beautiful hand-drawn borders and captions.]<br />[img:1:thumbnail]</li>
<li>A disturbing article detailing that off-shore shelling of the forts along the Dardanelles have not been as successful as originally thought. The forts are largely intact and the implication is that the Turks have simply retreated to the even stronger forts closer to Constantinople. The reports from last week of hundreds of thousands of soldiers entrenched to defend the peninsula jive with this. <br />[img:2:thumbnail][img:3:thumbnail]</li>
<li>Article on the German gas attack praises Canadians and damns the Germans. There are several other articles similar to this one. <br />[img:4:thumbnail]</li>
<li>An article summarizing recent events states that there is a certain anxiety regarding the larger German plans behind the attack at Ypres and these are overshadowing events in the Dardanelles. One of the sub-headlines says, "Admiralty Announces Success in Landing Troops on the Gallipoli Peninsula" but the content of the article on this subject is brief, vague, and speaks of "serious opposition".<br />[img:5:thumbnail][img:6:thumbnail][img:7:thumbnail]</li>
<li>The second page has the longest list of Canadian casualties since the beginning of the war. A list that is normally about ⅛–¼ of a column is well over two columns. <br />[img:8:thumbnail]</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Wednesday, April 28, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>"Further Lists of Casualties" from Ypres on the front page, again over two columns long.<br />[img:9:thumbnail]</li>
<li>Picture of the Commander of the ground forces at the Dardanelles, General Sir Ian Hamilton [with the usual beautiful hand-drawn embellishments and caption] accompanying an article on the attack, "Hard Fighting in Difficult Country" says one of the headlines. British and French reports claim a successful landing (implying, but not stating, that a beach-head has been established), but the article also includes a Turkish reports that claims "Our losses have been insignificant" and that the enemy has been forced to retreat. <br />[img:10:thumbnail][img:11:thumbnail]</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Thursday, April 29, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>"Casualty List Grows Longer": another two columns of Canadian casualties at Ypres on the front page.<br />[img:12:thumbnail]</li>
<li>Another article on the Dardanelles where the British report claims that although "The Turks have made considerable preparations to hamper out landings" a beach-head has been established on the Gallipoli Peninsula, but also includes German and Turkish reports that contradict the British claims of gains. <br />[img:13:thumbnail][img:14:thumbnail]</li>
<li>An article [unfortunately not completely readable because of a bad scan] about doctors examining the effects of the German gas attack on allied soldier. Essentially, he irritation caused by the gas caused the men to drown in their own lung fluid, sometimes hours or even days later. <br />[img:15:thumbnail]</li>
<li>A little bit of good news, the Dominion Government is calling for tenders for the construction of the astronomical observatory on Little Saanich Mountain now that that province has completed the road.<br />[img:16:thumbnail]</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Friday, April 30, 1915</strong>
<ul><li><em>Another</em> two-plus columns of Canadian casualties from Ypres on the front page, "Further Rolls of Casualties", plus pictures of some of the local men that are on the list and an article about the local men.<br />[img:17:thumbnail]</li>
<li>British and French reports from the Dardanelles claim advances are being made and thousands of Turks have been taken prisoner. "Fighting is Severe" states a sub-heading. <br />[img:18:thumbnail][img:19:thumbnail]</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Saturday, May 1, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>Yet another two-plus columns of Canadian casualties from Ypres. More pictures of local men on the list, and another article about local men on the casualty list. Another headlines read "Little Change on Ypres Front" and "Hearty Praise for Canadians".<br />[img:20:thumbnail]</li>
<li>Article on German aerial attacks on the Suffolk coast, including a Zeppelin bombing of Ipswitch. <br />[img:21:thumbnail]</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Sunday, May 2, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>Still another two full columns of additional Canadian casualties from Ypres on the front page. <br />[img:22:thumbnail]</li>
<li>[Unfortunately most of this paper is unreadably blurry and dark]<br />[img:23:thumbnail]</li>
</ul></li>
<li>Monday, May 3, 1915
<ul><li>[no paper on Mondays]</li>
</ul></li>
</ul><p><small>[ source: <a href="http://www.britishcolonist.ca/dateList.php?year=1915" rel="nofollow">http://www.britishcolonist.ca/dateList.php?year=1915</a> ]</small></p>
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</div>Sun, 03 May 2015 19:03:38 +0000Michael R. Barrick7963 at https://www.mbarrick.comhttps://www.mbarrick.com/blog/150503/daily-colonist-april-27-may-3-1915#commentsThe Daily Colonist, April 20-26, 1915https://www.mbarrick.com/blog/150426/daily-colonist-april-20-26-1915
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>#dailycolonist1915 - The news out of Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years ago:</p>
<p>[A lot of what happens, or is about to happen this week one hundred years ago has been in the news in the present. The first major gas attack by the Germans at Ypres, which distinguishes the Canadians involved, happens. On the 25th is the attack on Gallipoli that is remembered as ANZAC Day in Australia and New Zealand happens. Of course the results of the battle won't be in the paper until next week, but the build-up is ominous—it's very clear the Empire knew they were throwing the colonials in the meat-grinder. Also <strong>not </strong>in the paper is the start of the Armenian genocide by the Ottoman Empire. There is also a hint of the Arab Revolt that will eventually be led by T. E. Lawrence. A very interesting week...]</p>
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<ul><li><strong>Tuesday, April 20, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>A British naval officer passing through New York on his way from Malta to Vancouver expresses confidence that they will be able to take the Dardanelles.<br />[img:1:thumbnail]</li>
<li>The Minister of Justice is making an inspection of the internment camps in northern Québec and Ontario. The wives and children of internerned "enemy aliens" are to be sent to the vicinity of the camps. <br />[img:2:thumbnail]</li>
<li>German submariners still being referred to as "pirates" and "murderers" for attacking civilian shipping.<br />[img:3:thumbnail]</li>
<li>A German reports states that 35,000 British and French troops have landed in the Dardanelles.<br />[img:4:thumbnail]</li>
<li>"Desperados" involved in a gun fight with police in New Westminster during a robbery are arrested in Vancouver.<br />[img:5:thumbnail]</li>
<li>Founder of the Reuters news network, Baron Herbert de Reuter found dead in Surrey, England with a revolver nearby, "there is little doubt that he committed suicide."<br />[img:6:thumbnail]</li>
<li>British troops start strong offensive near Ypres, gaining three miles and taking 800 Germans prisoner.<br />[img:7:thumbnail][img:8:thumbnail]</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Wednesday, April 21, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>British cabinet ministers from the House of Commons and House of Lords, along with Prime Minister Asquith give an update on the war to armament workers in Newcasle, answering many questions. Chancellor of the Exchequer states that Lord Kitchener [for whom Berlin, Ontario will be renamed] is satisfied with voluntary enrolment and no conscription will be necessary. The article also has updates on what is going in Africa, the advances near Ypres and operations in the Dardanelles.<br />[img:9:thumbnail][img:10:thumbnail][img:11:thumbnail]</li>
<li>Turks are said to have 350,000 men in place to defend Gallipoli. The article claims that the troops are poor fighters "in poor condition" and "we can deal with them easily." "Have no fear of a massacre" the article says.<br />[img:12:thumbnail][img:13:thumbnail]</li>
<li>A man in Victoria is fined for driving on the wrong side of the street (the right hand side).<br />[img:14:thumbnail]</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Thursday, April 22, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>Germans are hard-pressed near Ypres. Heavy fighting and the Germans are taking serious loses. This article also includes a German report.<br />[img:15:thumbnail][img:16:thumbnail][img:17:thumbnail]</li>
<li>An article summarizing situation in the Carpathians. Spring flooding is impairing the Russian advance in Galicia.<br />[img:18:thumbnail][img:19:thumbnail]</li>
<li>A report from Greece states that the Turks are heavily entrenched near Gallipoli. A German report states that the British and French have landed 20,000 men near Gallipoli. An American report states that Allied forces will be reinforced with "a powerful force of troops gathered largely from India and Southern France."<br />[img:20:thumbnail][img:21:thumbnail]</li>
<li>[Meanwhile on the moon...] British forces and "French native troops from Central Africa" have defeated German troops in Kamerun [Cameroon].<br />[img:22:thumbnail]</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Friday, April 23, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>A presentation to Parliament in London on the war gives "glowing accounts of the strength and condition of the British Army". There are updates from all fronts including, "signs of [a] vigorous attack on German and Turkish Armies commencing ... near Dardanelles", report that the Germans are fighting hard so retake territory lost near Ypres, and rumours that Italy might enter the war.<br />[img:23:thumbnail][img:24:thumbnail][img:25:thumbnail][img:26:thumbnail]</li>
<li>Russian Ambassador reports that Italy has not decided what course they will take. <br />[img:27:thumbnail]</li>
<li>Whaling season in British Columbia to open in early in May.<br />[img:28:thumbnail]</li>
<li>British victory in Mesopotamia [Iraq] routs Ottoman forces. The article notes "turncoat Arab tribesmen" harassing Ottoman forces.<br />[img:29:thumbnail]</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Saturday, April 24, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>French report states counter attack by British [Canadian] against "ground gained by Germans though use of asphyxiating bombs" [chlorine] is successful. The article says, "In Belgium the surprise caused by asphyxiating bombs used by the Germans to the north of Ypres had no grave consequences."<br />The article also includes a German report.<br />[img:30:thumbnail][img:31:thumbnail][img:32:thumbnail]</li>
<li>British report on "Poisonous Gas Used by Enemy" detailing the gas attack [referred to as "asphyxiating gas", at no point is chlorine mentioned.]<br />[img:33:thumbnail]</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Sunday, April 25, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>Swiss article on the number of German soldiers being driven insane by the rigours of war [what will come to be called "shell-shock" and what we now call PTSD.]<br />[img:34:thumbnail]</li>
<li>Another report on the German gas attack and the Canadian counter-attack that "saved the situation."<br />[img:35:thumbnail][img:36:thumbnail][img:37:thumbnail]</li>
<li>"Success Gained Through Gas Bomb Device Turned to Failure by Canadians". Reports from the War Office in London and Ottawa. [At no point is chlorine mentioned, just "asphyxiating gas".]<br />[img:38:thumbnail][img:39:thumbnail]</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Monday, April 25, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>[No paper on Mondays]</li>
</ul></li>
</ul><p><small>[ source: <a href="http://www.britishcolonist.ca/dateList.php?year=1915">http://www.britishcolonist.ca/dateList.php?year=1915</a> ]</small></p>
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</div>Sun, 26 Apr 2015 20:51:55 +0000Michael R. Barrick7961 at https://www.mbarrick.comhttps://www.mbarrick.com/blog/150426/daily-colonist-april-20-26-1915#commentsThe Daily Colonist, April 13-19, 1915https://www.mbarrick.com/blog/150418/daily-colonist-april-13-19-1915
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>#dailycolonist1915 - The news out of Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years ago:</p>
<ul><li><strong>Tuesday, April 13, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>Surrounded by stories of "piracy" and "murder" by German submarines is a story on a secret British countermeasure that is proving effective against submarines [which, with a century of hindsight, this is probably an early form of sonar, which the British started developing in earnest in 1912 after the Titanic disaster as a means for ships to avoid marine obstacles.]<br /> </li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Wednesday, April 14, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>A small indication that Italy may be nearing entering the war: Paris newspaper <em>Le Temps</em> reports that the Italian government has packed away art treasures from Venice and Florence for safe keeping.</li>
<li>Germans protest the British treating captured submarine crews as criminal prisoners and not prisoners of war and threatens to retaliate by treating British officers held prisoner similarly.</li>
<li> The British Foreign Office asks the American government to look into the conditions of British officers held by Germany.</li>
<li>A house is blown up by dynamite in Vancouver "in the East Indian quarter, Kitsilano" in what is believed to be a feud over the outcome of the Komogata Maru incident. One man is decapitated, two injured, and seven more in the house are unharmed.<br /> </li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Thursday, April 15, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>Canadians observed training with lacrosse sticks near the front lines for an undisclosed purpose.</li>
<li>United States State Department officially asks U.S. ambassador in Berlin to look into treatment of British prisoners of war.</li>
<li>[A little bit of name-calling and drama:] An editorial apologising for an ad that ran on the 2nd and drawing attention to a new ad from the same advertiser that also apologises for the previous ad. The apology in the ad states that the clerk at the Colonist that wrote the ad was sacked. I've also included the ad from 2nd, which prints a copy of a Vancouver court document where a retailer is suing the wholesaler for being overcharged and the advertiser in question, another wholesaler, accuses their competitor of acting like "might is right" Germans. <br /> </li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Friday, April 16, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>An air-raid on Essex and Suffolk by two Zeppelins. This is close on the heels of another Zeppelin attack in Northumbland earlier in the week. The Zeppelin from that attack is reported to have returned safely to Germany.</li>
<li>In a dispatch from Rome, the Italian government announces that they might definitely, sometime in the next few weeks, maybe decide that they might do something official regarding the war, but they aren't sure what yet.<br /> </li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Saturday, April 17, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>Map on the front page illustrating origins and paths of aircraft used in an air-raid on Kent. </li>
<li>American ambassador reports that British officers are being held in detention barracks the same as ordinary prisoners of war in retaliation for German submarine officers being treated like ordinary criminal prisoners by Britain. <br /> </li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Sunday, April 18, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>Six German children are killed in a French air-raid. The article back-handedly blames the Germans for being too cocky and not taking cover during the French attack. </li>
<li>An amazing ad for B.C. Tel showing "Telephonia Emancipating the World from the Drudgery of Trudgery" and detailing the number of telephones installed in Victoria from 1880 (46) to 1915 (8820). [And it is interesting to note that the first telephone in Victoria, with the phone number of "1" was for the editor of The British Colonist, is still in service as 250-380-5201 and still belongs to The Victoria Times-Colonist.]<br /> </li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Monday, April 19, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>[no paper on Mondays]</li>
</ul></li>
</ul><p><small>[ source: <a href="http://www.britishcolonist.ca/dateList.php?year=1915" rel="nofollow">http://www.britishcolonist.ca/dateList.php?year=1915</a> ]</small></p>
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</div>Sat, 18 Apr 2015 18:31:50 +0000Michael R. Barrick7960 at https://www.mbarrick.comhttps://www.mbarrick.com/blog/150418/daily-colonist-april-13-19-1915#commentsThe Daily Colonist, April 6-12, 1915https://www.mbarrick.com/blog/150412/daily-colonist-april-6-12-1915
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>#dailycolonist1915 - News out of Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years ago:</p>
<p>The general buzz this week is on Russian advances in the Carpathian Mountains. The articles are all short on specifics, even in comparison to the heavily censored news from the Western Front, as all the news from the Eastern European theatre seem to be, so none of them were really worth "clipping". Suffice to say that the Russians have advanced through at least two Carpathian passes into Hungarian territory. The more interesting articles and advertisements from this week follow:</p>
<ul><li><strong>Tuesday, April 6, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>An interesting article in the "Women's Realm" section on the growing numbers of woman entering the workforce with advice for women on how to hold a job more permanently and advance their careers. [Interesting because the general opinion in my experience is that this is a World War II phenomenon, which may well be true in the United States, but as this article shows, this started in World War I in Canada since, unlike the U.S., Canada was in the war right from the get-go and a far greater percentage of the male population in Canada took up arms.]<br /> </li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Wednesday, April 7, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>Front page article refers to German submarines as "pirates" (in keeping with<a href="http://www.mbarrick.com/blog/150405/daily-colonist-march-30-april-5-1915#slide-3-field_blog_gallery-7958" rel="nofollow"> the editorial published the previous Wednesday</a>) for attacks on a hospital ship and merchant ships. </li>
<li>On Tuesday an estimated 1,500 unemployed men riot in Vancouver, stealing food from grocers and restaurants along Cordova Street after being denied further relief work by the Vancouver city government. [I tried looking up more about this and it seems this event is forgotten by history.]</li>
<li>Victoria city news include two speeding tickets for motorist, one of which was for $50 for exceeding the speed limit of 15 mph on Fort Street. [Note that a house in a nice neighbourhood in Victoria rents for $10-15/month at the time. $50 is a pretty hefty fine!]<br /> </li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Thursday, April 8, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>Story on German prisoners of war in Maidenhead, England almost completing an escape tunnel.</li>
<li>Illustrated ad for a live corset-modelling event at Spencer's Department Store. <br /> </li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Friday, April 9, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>A shipment of 150 areoplanes for Russia arrives in Tacoma by C.P. Rail for shipping to Vladivostok aboard a Japanese freighter [World War, indeed!]</li>
<li>American chemical companies are gearing up to produce fabric dyes no longer available from Germany [Dyes derived from coal-tar were first invented in 1856 by <a href="http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi2059.htm" rel="nofollow">German chemist A. W. Hoffman</a> working in London at the time. German chemists and industry remained leaders in the field up to this point.]<br /> </li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Saturday, April 10, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>Illustrated ad for "20th Century Suits"</li>
<li>Editorial where the Colonist responds to Liberal criticism (The Daily Colonist is an unabashedly Conservative newspaper) [This bit of partisan bickering would not be out of place in a modern blog. Also note that the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservative_Party_of_Canada_(1867%E2%80%931942)" rel="nofollow">Conservative Party</a> of 1915 is not the same party as the far-right, Teabagger wanna-be, Reform-party radical, "You won't recognize Canada when I'm done with it" Harper Conservatives that currently bear the name.] </li>
<li>City news notes that mail dispatched from England on March 26 has now arrived in Victoria [a little reminder of life without e-mail.]</li>
<li>A [fantastically racist] illustrated ad for shoe-polish. </li>
<li>Another article on German submarine "piracy".</li>
<li>Prime Minister Robert Borden reports that Canada's forces now number 101,560 men (all volunteers) [from a population of 7.9 million. In comparison, the U.K., with a population over five time greater at 41.7 million had a force of about 300,000 to 400,000, not counting colonials, at the time—although is difficult to find numbers that differentiate between men from the U.K. and colonials. An easier comparison is the United States, with a population well over 12 times that of Canada at about 100 million, in their second month of the war—June 1917—had a force of 390,000 men.]</li>
<li>Two-page wide photograph of the Governor General H.R.H. Prince Arthur, the Duke of Connaught [third son of Queen Victoria, and father to Princess Patricia for whom the Princess Patricia Light Infantry are named] inspecting the Second Canadian Contingent in Montréal. [Then as now, the Governor General is the commander-in-chief of Canadian forces.]</li>
<li>The four-page Sunday section on "The Great European War" includes a page on the Russian advances in the Carpathians and a page on rail-mounted mobile artillery [tanks and self-propelled artillery are still being developed and the British Mark I tank and Gun Carrier Mark I do not go into battle until 1916.]<br /> </li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Monday, April 12, 1915</strong>
<ul><li>[no paper on Mondays]</li>
</ul></li>
</ul><p><small>[source: <a href="http://www.britishcolonist.ca/dateList.php?year=1915" rel="nofollow">http://www.britishcolonist.ca/dateList.php?year=1915</a> ]</small></p>
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</div>Sun, 12 Apr 2015 20:10:56 +0000Michael R. Barrick7959 at https://www.mbarrick.comhttps://www.mbarrick.com/blog/150412/daily-colonist-april-6-12-1915#comments